The Marsh King's Daughter
A one-more-page, read-in-one-sitting thriller that you'll remember for ever
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Publisher Description
You've met Kya, the 'marsh girl' now meet Helena, 'the marsh king's daughter...'
'What to read after Where the Crawdads Sing' AMAZON
'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'I loved this book' LEE CHILD
'Gorgeously written eerie suspense' KARIN SLAUGHTER
You'd recognise my mother's name if I told it to you. You'd wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn't she have a daughter while she was missing?
And whatever happened to the little girl?
Helena's home is now like anyone else's, with a husband and two daughters and a job she enjoys. But no one knows the truth about her childhood.
Brought up in a cabin in the wilderness until she was twelve, Helena's father kept her and her mother isolated and unable to leave their marshland home, until the fateful day Helena escaped and her father faced justice.
Now years later and with news that he has escaped from prison, Helena instinctively knows that her father is coming for her and if she is to keep her family safe, she must once again return to the marsh, to confront him in the wilderness and become the Marsh King's daughter once again.
An unforgettable and emotional read-in-one-sitting story packed with gripping suspense.
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'Kya, the main character in Crawdads, is known as the "Marsh Girl." The Marsh King's Daughter shares the marsh moniker, along with the mystery and thriller elements of Crawdads... if you're looking for another strong female character and a book where the characters are of their environment, this book might do the trick' AMAZON
'Unlike anything else I've read. Haunting and unputdownable' LAURA MARSHALL
'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'You won't be able to stop turning the pages' MEGAN ABBOTT
'A wonderful book... Mesmerising' ALEX MARWOOD
'A nail-biter' COSMOPOLITAN
'A knockout' SARAH HILARY
'I was absolutely gripped' GILLY MACMILLAN
'Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying' TÉA OBREHT
'Original and exciting, with a thrilling ending' MARK EDWARDS
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Karen Dionne has created a hugely intriguing narrator for this taut psychological thriller. Helena Pelletier was born in captivity after her father kidnapped her mother. Helena's father is eventually imprisoned for his crimes, but after 15 years he’s escaped—and may be coming for her. Dionne builds a rivetingly conflicted character in Helena. Her struggles to maintain a “normal" domestic existence while digesting brutal realities about the man she grew up adoring are as riveting as the desperate efforts to capture him.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Helena Pelletier, the narrator of Dionne's (Freezing Point) exceptional hardcover debut, a psychological thriller, lives an ordinary life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula mother to five-year-old Iris and three-year-old Mari, wife to Stephen but her childhood was not normal. Her mother was kidnapped at age 14 by Jacob Holbrook and taken to a remote cabin, where Helena was born three years later. When Helena was about 12, she and her mother escaped, their rescue making international headlines. No one, not even Stephen, knows her background, until Jacob escapes from prison after 13 years, killing two guards before disappearing into the woods less than 30 miles from the Pelletiers' house. Knowing how he thinks, Helena is the only one who can find Jacob. Detailed flashbacks show Helena had an odd but decent childhood. To the world, Jacob was a monster; to Helena, he was just her father, who taught her to fish, hunt, and track, and told involving stories, and was occasionally brutal. Helena's conflicting emotions about her father and her own identity elevate this powerful story. Author tour.
