Girl Unknown: The unputdownable SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER with a heart stopping twist . . . - Softcover

Perry, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405920327 ISBN 13: 9781405920322

Publisher: Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

When Zoe Barry walks into Professor David Connolly's office and announces that she is his daughter, he is left reeling. Suddenly his family - imperfect, flawed, but working - is trying to find space for someone new.

But Zoe's stories don't quite add up and lies become indistinguishable from truths. The family struggle to make sense of whether she is a sister, a daughter, a friend, an enemy. But no one could have expected where it all might end.

Because they have let into their home a girl that they do not know. And now everything they have built has begun to violently, determinedly, break apart.

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Review:

Praise for Girl Unknown (-)

Full of intrigue and incident and keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page (Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Lying in Wait)

Karen Perry writes intense psychological thrillers that explore emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy, and this may be their best yet (Bestselling author Tana French in the Irish Independent, Books of the Year)

Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page. (The Irish Independent)

This story of psychological attrition builds to an incredibly tense finale - before delivering an amazing final twist, Riveting stuff (Sunday Mirror)

Taunt, tense psycho-gripper (Sunday Sport)

A profoundly disturbing, beautifully written story . . . An unputdownable novel that deftly examines the cost of misguided compassion, leading to a stunning conclusion you won't see coming. Karen Perry delivers again (Michelle Richmond, author of The Marriage Pact)

Loved it (Lucy Mangan)

Praise For Karen Perry (-)

Stunning (Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club)

From the Back Cover:

'I think you might be my father . . .'

When first-year student Zoë Barry walks into Professor David Connolly's office and tentatively says these words, he is left reeling. But it is the lives of his family - particularly his wife Caroline - which are turned upside down by the arrival of this stranger.

A daughter, a sister, a friend . . . an enemy?

Though no one knows quite who Zoë is, she is soon entangled in their lives. Yet her stories don't ring true and Caroline is determined to learn if the girl is the unlucky innocent she claims to be or someone with a far darker agenda.

A deadly cuckoo in the nest . . .Because by letting Zoë in, David and Caroline aren't just leaving themselves vulnerable. They're risking the most precious thing in the world - the lives of their children . . .

Praise for Karen Perry

'Both as a crime novel and as an emotional journey, it's gripping stuff' Tana French

'Taut, smartly written, empathetic, unbearably tense' Irish Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1405920327
• ISBN 13: 9781405920322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384