Description
An extremely sharp, well-written female revenge thriller that looks at trauma and the complicated ways in which it manifests.
WHEN DANGER LIES IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REJECT ITS PULL?
One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth – but the people they love are not what they seem.
Cora carries secrets her daughter can’t know.
Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.
Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground.
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Angel is working in a wolf sanctuary in Canada when an abandoned dog is brought in– a dog she knows. The dog’s owner is missing, but has he been caught out in a blizzard or has something more sinister caught up with him?
Cora is running from a dangerous man. Attempting to bury her emotions (fear and anguish) in her art has brought her controversy all her career, but the truth behind her paintings could expose more than a model.
Freya is close with her mother but trying to build a life of her own. While searching for answers, she has her own reasons for trying to unearth her mother’s history.
One act of violence sets the three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth. In a nail-biting thriller set between the scorched red soil of South Africa, the pitiless snowfields of Canada and the chilly lochsides of western Scotland, each woman must contend with the spectres of male violence, sexual abuse and the choices we each make to keep our souls.
The author: Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels have been widely translated and led to her being described as the ‘queen of South African crime-thriller writers’ (The Weekender). She has written a number of children’s books and several works of nonfiction, and is also an award-winning journalist who writes regularly for newspapers in the UK and in South Africa. Orford is a member of the executive board of PEN International and president emerita of PEN South Africa. She lives in London.
