PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jessica Treadway is a novelist and short-story writer interested primarily in the psychological lives of characters who may be hiding things from themselves. A former news reporter for United Press International, she published her first book of stories in 1992, followed by her first novel in 2001 and a second collection, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, in 2010. Most of her work is realistic fiction about families. Jessica is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College in Boston.
Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases it apart. The question of what happened to Joy kept me up half the night - Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett If you were one of the millions who were captivated by the deftly plotted guessing game that was Gone Girl - then treat yourself to this equally beguiling and just as pitch-black thriller... Great characters, a smart plot, full of heart and feeling. Brilliant. - Sunday Mirror on If She Did It
