The Wrong Mother
the heart-pounding, twisty thriller with a chilling end
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3.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
'Get ready for a roller-coaster ride with this tense and twisty story of two women with dark secrets' HEAT
One mother on the run. A safe place to hide. But you can't escape the past forever . . .
Faye is 39 and single. She's terrified she may never have the one thing she always wanted: a child of her own.
Then she discovers a co-parenting app: Acorns. For men and women who want to have a baby, but don't want to do it alone. When she meets Louis through it, it feels as though the fates have aligned.
But just one year later, Faye is on the run from Louis, with baby Jake in tow. In desperate need of a new place to live, she contacts Rachel, who's renting out a room in her remote Norfolk cottage. It's all Faye can afford - and surely she'll be safe from Louis there?
But is Rachel the benevolent landlady she pretends to be? Or does she have a secret of her own?
'Pulse-pounding' LOUISE MUMFORD
'Had me hooked from beginning to end' 5* READER REVIEW
'The perfect thriller' EMILY FREUD
'Not to be missed' 5* READER REVIEW
'Utterly addictive' WOMAN'S OWN
'A thrilling page-turner' 5* READER REVIEW
'Full of pace, suspense and intrigue' L V MATTHEWS
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This enjoyably twisty psychological thriller from Duckworth (Unfollow Me) plunges readers in into the turbulent life of 39-year-old Faye Miller. Desperate to escape her three-week-old son's father for initially unclear reasons, she's on the run without much in the way of a plan. Faye chooses to hide out in the tiny Norfolk village of Helston, where her late great-aunt once lived. Fate and the internet bring her together with Rachel Morris, a lonely 64-year-old woman advertising the rental of a "bright and spacious" spare room in her cottage. At first, Rachel—a former Girl Guide leader and long-standing member of Helston's annual bonfire night committee—appears as the picture of small-town hospitality. But before long, Faye begins to wonder how much she can trust her, and in narration that shifts back and forth between the young mother and older landlady, buried secrets from both emerge and threaten to combust. A handful of third-act coincidences strain credibility, but Duckworth skillfully metes out clues in the protagonists' personal histories that will send readers scurrying to revise their expectations. This sturdy page-turner beguiles to the end.
