Mother, Mother
An electrifying debut novel about what happens when the one who should love you the most becomes your worst enemy. Sure to appeal to fans of GONE GIRL and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVINAll is not well with the Hurst family.There is gentle teenage daughter Violet, whose experiments with fasting and...
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An electrifying debut novel about what happens when the one who should love you the most becomes your worst enemy. Sure to appeal to fans of GONE GIRL and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVINAll is not well with the Hurst family.There is gentle teenage daughter Violet, whose experiments with fasting and drugs land her in a psychiatric ward; eight-year-old Will who is smart, funny and caring but has already been labelled autistic and is being home-schooled; and mother Josephine, whose subtly controlling and seemingly innocent manoeuvres may just be the source of everyone else's despair.And then there's Rose, the sister who got away. Tired of Josephine's interferences, Rose ran away from home years earlier and hasn't been heard from since. But as her mother's intentions become more terrifyingly clear, Violet begins to wonder whether something far, far worse happened to her older sister…
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00E31DAMC
Publish date: January 16th 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
I admit, when I started this book I thought to myself "Thriller? Psychological? I wouldn't call it that at all." But, whoa boy, once I really got into it, that psychology and thrill just snuck right up on me. This is a fast-paced thriller that I could NOT put down! I read this in one day because I r...
Before you begin this book, make sure you have lots of free time because you will not be able to put it down! Did you like Gone Girl? I thought this was even more of a cliffhanger. When it ended, I kind of hoped that there would be a sequel to follow. In order of age, there are three children: Rose,...
Mother, Mother I don't really know where to start with this review. I enjoyed the book but found it quite difficult to read. Josephine Hurst is a vile person, totally self obsessed, very controlling and very mentally abusive. At times it was quite sad the way the way her controlling affected the pe...
All is not well with the Hurst family. No indeed tell me about it! All is certainly NOT well with the Hurst family. But what, I wonder, could be at the heart of that disease? Well thats what Koren Zailckas looks at here – a family dynamic – and something at its core that is eating away at the whol...
Won through Goodreads First Reads. Couldn't put this book down! A fantastic thriller.