The Trophy Child
a twisty and unputdownable domestic thriller
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4.3 • 41 Ratings
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- £1.99
Publisher Description
'A terrific page turner.' Guardian
'Kept me guessing right until the end. I devoured it.' Claire Douglas
'The UK's answer to Liane Moriarty. Amazing' Claire McGowan
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A doting mother or a pushy parent?
Karen Bloom expects perfection. Her son, Ewan, has been something of a disappointment and she won't be making the same mistake again with her beloved, talented child, Bronte.
Bronte's every waking hour will be spent at music lessons and dance classes, doing extra schoolwork and whatever it takes to excel.
But as Karen pushes Bronte to the brink, the rest of the family crumbles. Karen's husband, Noel, is losing himself in work, and his teenage daughter from his first marriage, Verity, is becoming ever more volatile. The family is dangerously near breaking point.
Karen would know when to stop . . . wouldn't she?
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Readers are obsessed with The Trophy Child:
***** 'Suspenseful and engaging with a shocking ending.'
***** 'I absolutely raced through The Trophy Child, snatching every spare moment I could to read just a few more pages.'
***** 'Gripping from start to finish. Her best so far!'
IF YOU'VE ALREADY RACED THROUGH THE TROPHY CHILD THEN DON'T MISS CLEAR MY NAME, THE CAPTIVATING NEW THRILLER FROM PAULA DALY. *OUT NOW!*
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Investigating the disappearance of 10-year-old Bront Bloom plunges Det. Sgt. Joanne Aspinall into the emotional whirlpool of one seriously dysfunctional family a family to which, she's shocked to discover, she has an intimate connection in Daly's absorbing domestic thriller, her fourth novel set in the Lake District (after 2015's The Mistake I Made). The detective encounters immediate pushback from Bront 's proudly self-proclaimed "tiger mom" Karen, who's quick to lambaste just about every member of her household, particularly her sensitive but troubled teen stepdaughter, Verity, and her henpecked physician husband, Noel, who left Verity's now-MS-stricken mother for her. Then a second Bloom goes missing, and Joanne has to face the possibility that her undisclosed relationship might have seriously compromised her professional judgment. Though a little Karen goes quite a long way, more sympathetic characters, such as Joanne and Verity, plus some unexpected plot twists and sly commentary on the bourgeois milieu, will keep readers turning the pages.)
