PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling author of psychological thrillers, poetry, and short fiction. Her work has been published in twenty-four countries, and her novel Kind of Cruel was shortlisted for the National Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and is taught in schools throughout the United Kingdom. She has recently been commissioned by the Agatha Christie Estate to write a new novel featuring Hercule Poirot--the first and only since Christie's death. Hannah lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, England.
Devilishly elegant. --The New York Times Book Review Expertly paced and brilliantly conceived. --New York Journal of Books A creepy, tension-filled surprise. --Independent on Sunday (London) You have to hand it to a writer who can make a children's choir spooky . . . Hannah builds uneasiness with so many odd touches: an out-of-place gesture, an exasperated husband, increasingly aberrant behavior by the main character. --The News & Observer This stand-alone novel, a break from Hannah's series of psychological police procedurals featuring Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse, is a riveting story in which suspense snowballs to a climax that is all the more dire for its everyday contemporary English setting. Absolutely haunting, in every sense of the word. --Booklist Chilling. A must read. --Daily Express (London) Horrifically good. --The Independent (London) This bestselling thriller writer knows how to pile on the tension, and her ending is chillingly, memorably disturbing. --The Sunday Times (London) An old-fashioned horror story, given a modern spin by the likeable narrator. It has a creepy cinematic feel and races along to its frightening ending. --Sunday Mirror (London) Sophie Hannah is a prodigous talent. I can't wait to see what she does next. --Laura Lippman, author of What the Dead Know Hannah [writes] persuasively and with style and wit about modern women who buckle under the stress of motherhood. --The New York Times Book Review Gripping . . . It's like watching a nightmare come alive. --Tana French on The Truth Teller's Lie
