The Other Child

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Pub Date 04 Jun 2015 | Archive Date 20 Oct 2015

Description

A gripping psychological thriller from the author of the acclaimed debut The Missing One.
Sometimes a lie seems kinder than the truth . . . but what happens when that lie destroys everything you love?

When Tess is sent to photograph Greg, a high profile paediatric heart surgeon, she sees something troubled in his face, and feels instantly drawn to him. Their relationship quickly deepens, but then Tess, single mother to nine-year-old Joe, falls pregnant, and Greg is offered the job of a lifetime back in his hometown of Boston. Before she knows it, Tess is married, and relocating to the States. But life in an affluent American suburb proves anything but straightforward.

Unsettling things keep happening in the large rented house, Joe is distressed, the next-door neighbours are in crisis, and Tess is sure that someone is watching her. Greg's work is all-consuming and, as the baby's birth looms, he grows more and more unreachable. Something is very wrong, Tess knows it, and then she makes a jaw-dropping discovery . . .
Lucy Atkins is an award-winning feature journalist and author, as well as a Sunday Times book critic. She has written for many newspapers, including the Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Telegraph, as well as magazines such as Psychologies, Red, Woman and Home and Grazia. She lives in Oxford.

A gripping psychological thriller from the author of the acclaimed debut The Missing One.
Sometimes a lie seems kinder than the truth . . . but what happens when that lie destroys everything you...


Advance Praise

'Truly unnerving. Atkins perfectly captures the vulnerability that comes with moving overseas, away from friends and support networks, and uses it expertly in this compelling novel. Not just one-more-page gripping but perceptive and beautifully written' - Lucie Whitehouse, author of Before We Met
'I absolutely loved this novel. The Other Child is seriously gripping, seriously scary and seriously brilliant' - Clare Kendal, author of The Book of You
'Taut, tense, and beautifully written. I held my breath between chapters and didn't sleep until I reached the end' - Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go

'Truly unnerving. Atkins perfectly captures the vulnerability that comes with moving overseas, away from friends and support networks, and uses it expertly in this compelling novel. Not just...


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