The Perfect Mother

What really goes on behind closed doors?

Catriona has the life she’s always dreamed of: a loving husband, a delightful step-daughter and her own precious little girl, Daisy. When Daisy begins to feel poorly, Catriona seeks help and, in doing so, is forced to look to the past and her own dark and fractured childhood.

When Cat is accused of an unspeakable crime, she begins to realise that the life she has now is more fragile than she could ever have imagined.

“Margaret Leroy writes like a dream” Tony Parsons

“I was eager to find out what happened next. I dreaded the worst and I hoped for the best – and I won’t tell you which happens” New York Times

About the author

Margaret Leroy read music at Oxford and subsequently became a social worker and social work researcher involved in counselling couples and sex therapy programmes, and in work with abused children and teenagers. Since taking her MA at Leicester University she has published numerous articles and two books. She is married and has two daughters.