A twisting psychological suspense about every parent's worst nightmare, featuring unforgettable journalist, Kate Waters.
Fiona Barton’s debut, The Widow, was a Sunday Times and New York
Times bestseller and has been published in 36 countries and
optioned for television. Her second novel, The Child, was a Sunday
Times bestseller. Born in Cambridge, Fiona currently lives in
Sussex and south-west France.
Previously, she was a senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor
at the Daily Telegraph, and chief reporter at the Mail on Sunday,
where she won Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards.
While working as a journalist, Fiona reported on many high-profile
criminal cases and she developed a fascination with watching those
involved, their body language and verbal tics. Fiona interviewed
people at the heart of these crimes, from the guilty to their
families, as well as those on the periphery, and draws on this
wealth of experience in her fiction writing. Clare Corbett is an
English actress and voice artist. She has appeared on stage in
productions of To Kill a Mockingbird, Pygmalion and Spoonface
Steinberg, among others. Winner of the prestigious Carleton Hobbs
Radio Award, she has appeared in over 250 radio plays including
Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis and Dr Zhivago. She has also
narrated numerous audiobooks, including Girl on the Train, which
earned her Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2017. Mark Meadows is
a British actor with extensive theatre, film and TV credits. He is
a frequent contributor to plays, musicals, narrations and readings
for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Mark has narrated around 80 audiobook
titles and was a nominee for the 2013 Audible Narrator of the Year
award. He also provided the voice of the ship’s computer in Ridley
Scott’s Prometheus. Siân Thomas is a Welsh actress who trained at
the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has appeared on stage,
on TV and in films such as Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix in which she played Amelia Bones. She was part of the cast
of the musical Spring Awakening in London until May 2009 (when the
show closed), playing the 'Adult Women'. In 2002 she appeared in
London's West End theatre production Up for Grabs with Madonna. She
has a particularly effective voice for reading modern poetry, which
is often deployed on the BBC Radio 3 programme Words and Music.
'Fiona Barton is perceptive, empathetic and a talented writer.'
*The Daily Express*
‘Intelligent, insightful and compelling. A clever, twisting
whodunnit that delivers an emotional punch. I loved it.'
*C.L. Taylor*
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