The Daughter
One of the best crime books of the year - The Times
Published on 19. May 2022
320 pages
978-0-7490-2885-5 (ISBN)
Description
'Breathless, exciting debut.' SUNDAY TIMES, Best new crime books of 2022
'Totally engrossing.' JO BRAND
'Beautifully observed.' DAILY MAIL
'A must read.' SOPHIE HANNAH, author of HAVEN'T THEY GROWN
A compelling, darkly amusing debut.' CD MAJOR, author of THE OTHER GIRL
'Liz Webb creates a dark tangled web in The Daughter.' The Irish Independent
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FAMILIES CAN BE MURDER
I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years.
"Dad, did you murder Mum?"
Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose suspicious death opened up fault lines beneath the surface of their ordinary family life.
Hannah is disturbed by the uncanny resemblance she now has to her glamorous mother. She begins to exploit this arresting likeness to force the truth into the light, but in doing so is propelled into a fatal standoff she could never have foreseen.
'Totally engrossing.' JO BRAND
'Beautifully observed.' DAILY MAIL
'A must read.' SOPHIE HANNAH, author of HAVEN'T THEY GROWN
A compelling, darkly amusing debut.' CD MAJOR, author of THE OTHER GIRL
'Liz Webb creates a dark tangled web in The Daughter.' The Irish Independent
_______________
FAMILIES CAN BE MURDER
I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years.
"Dad, did you murder Mum?"
Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose suspicious death opened up fault lines beneath the surface of their ordinary family life.
Hannah is disturbed by the uncanny resemblance she now has to her glamorous mother. She begins to exploit this arresting likeness to force the truth into the light, but in doing so is propelled into a fatal standoff she could never have foreseen.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7490-2885-5 (9780749028855)
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Person
Liz Webb originally trained as a classical dancer, then worked as a secretary, stationery shop manager, art class model, cocktail waitress, stand-up comic, voice-over artist, script editor and radio drama producer, before becoming a novelist. She lives in North London.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- EPIGRAPH
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
- CHAPTER THIRTY
- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT
