Dancing in the Dark
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
A woman's search for her identity leads her to confront a series of disturbing truths in this enthralling psychological mystery
Abandoned at the age of eleven by her beautiful, capricious mother, Theodora Cairns, twenty years on and with a painful divorce behind her, is still struggling to get over her childhood abandonment. With the urging of her new love interest, Fergus Costello, and a chance discovery, Theo becomes determined to find her mother and demand answers to the questions she should have asked years ago. Her search for answers leads her to Vermont, USA, but will she be able to handle the disturbing truth?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a seamlessly plotted story, Moody (Losing Nicola) believably coveys the childhood trauma of Theodora Cairns, whose paranoid mother dragged her around the world in the first 11 years of her life and then disappeared for the next 10. Now an adult with a successful garden design business in the Cotswolds, Theo wants nothing unexpected, but when she learns the story her mother told her about her father is false, her view of herself collapses. Bestselling Irish author Fergus Costello, also troubled and doubting his writing ability, finds Theo fascinating, and they form an unexpected bond. The romance is drawn well, psychologically and physically. Each urges the other to face the separate pasts that haunt them. Through stream-of-consciousness narration, Moody forms complete characters of two wounded people looking to squash their nightmares and reach their dreams. Their quests bring freedom and reunion, sadness and understanding, and triumphant love. Moody has written another winner.
