Paula Daly
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Single mother Roz has reached breaking-point. After the dissolution of her marriage, Roz's business has gone under, debts are racking up, the rent is late (again), and she's struggling to provide for her nine-year-old son, who is starting to misbehave in school. Roz is in trouble. Increasingly desperate, Roz doesn't know where to turn. Then the perfect opportunity presents itself. At her sister's fortieth birthday party, Roz meets Scott Elias--wealthy,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. In her unsettling new domestic thriller, The Trophy Child , Daly digs beneath the serene surface of the idyllic suburban Lake District community where families strive for perfection, delivering a suspenseful, surprising story of motherhood and fallibility. Karen...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Lisa Kallisto is one of those overworked, overscheduled mothers who never secures enough sleep at night. After getting her three kids off to school, working all day as the manager of a charitable animal shelter and taking care of her household, she's lucky to get a few minutes to herself. So when her daughter's friend Lucinda turns up missing after she was supposed to spend the night at Lisa's home, Lisa is full of blame and self-loathing. And she's...