Joshilyn Jackson

Broschiertes Buch

Mother May I

'Brilliantly unnerving' The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

Beschreibung

Brilliantly unnerving ... expertly crafted' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month
'Jackson raises the stakes again and again' Guardian
'Finely paced, shrewdly observed ... Mother May I is a thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller' Wall Street Journal
It's every mother's worst nightmare.
'If you ever want to see your baby again, GO HOME.
Tell no one.
Do not call the police.
Do not call your husband.
Be at your house by 5:15 PM.
Or hes gone for good...'
To get her son back alive, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but this one action comes with a devastating price. And now Bree finds herself complicit in a terrible crime, caught up in a tangled web of secrets that threatens to destroy the perfect life she has built.

Autor

Joshilyn Jackson lives in Decatur, Georgia with her husband and their two children. For the past six years she has taught creative writing and literature courses for Georgia's maximum security facility for women. Through their education-in-prison and re-entry programmes, Reforming Arts fosters the development of critical and creative thinking skills, encouraging students to build liveable lives. She's also an award winning audiobook narrator, performing most of her own work as well as other authors including Lydia Netzer and Marybeth Mayhew Whalen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 522710
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781526633873
• ISBN-10: 1526633876
• Artikelnr.: 63047561

Rezensionen

Jackson follows her brilliantly unnerving Never Have I Ever with another battle of wits between a manipulative criminal and her victim ... Bree and Marshall's twin narratives sustain the unrelenting tension all the way to a double denouement; yet this is much more than an expertly crafted entertainment, as its themes include class, sexual consent and misogyny