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Book Synopsis''Gripping'' Mail on Sunday
What if your child ends up hurting those you love?
Lydia and Bel have been best friends for years, from wild teenage days all the way through to motherhood. Bel becomes pregnant by accident and has a fraught relationship with daughter Freya, while Lydia and love-of-her-life Mac, after failed fertility treatment, choose to adopt. Gorgeous toddler Chloe challenges them more than either of them had ever expected and as a teenager her behaviour escalates increasingly out of control, pushing their marriage, and Lydia and Bel''s relationship, to breaking point.
A harrowing and heart-breaking story of the splinters that can tear mothers and daughters, husbands and wives - and friends - apart.
Praise for Cath Staincliffe:
''''This powerful, often harrowing story will move you to tears'' My Weekly
''Harrowing and humane. A real knockout'' I
Trade Review
Gripping * Daily Mail *
This powerful, often harrowing story will move you to tears * My Weekly *
Totally compelling . . . sincere and powerful * Yorkshire Post *
Praise for Cath Staincliffe:
Harrowing and humane. A real knockout -- Ian Rankin
It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that -- Val McDermid
Powerful, complex and utterly gripping * Sunday Mirror *
An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout * Daily Telegraph *
Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary -- Ann Cleeves
Complex and satisfying * Sunday Times *
For her insistence on looking real life squarely in the face I would call Staincliffe the most grown-up writer in British crime fiction ... her novel is mercilessly exciting too * The Telegraph on The Silence Between Breaths *
A sensitive and humane writer whose talent for characterisation ... is the fuel for real suspense * The Guardian *
A powerful, complex, gripping, perfectly paced book that packs a punch * The People *
Emotionally unsparing, this expertly written police procedural is also an outstanding thriller, hard to put aside even for the sake of sleep * Morning Star *
Her finest novel yet, emotionally unsparing, powerful, humane and moving . . . This is a timely, brave and brilliant book * Crime Review on The Girl in the Green Dress *
