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The Marsh King's Daughter

Helena’s life seems ordinary, but she is hiding a dark secret: she and her mother were kept captive in an isolated cabin for years by her father. Later, when he escapes from prison, she must take desperate measures to save her family.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Sphere
  • Year: 2020
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 196x124mm
  • ISBN: 9780751581751
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.3kg
Product code:
516298
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***PERFECT FOR FANS OF WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING AND SOON TO BE MAJOR FILM STARRING DAISY RIDLEY***

You'd recognise my mother's name if I told it to you. You'd wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn't she have a daughter while she was missing?

And whatever happened to the little girl?

Helena's home is like anyone else's, with a husband, two daughters and a job she enjoys. But no one knows the truth about her dark and twisted childhood.

Born into captivity and brought up in an isolated cabin until she was twelve, Helena was raised by her terrified, broken mother and the man who held them both prisoner - Helena's own father.

Now with news that he has escaped from prison, Helena instinctively knows that her father is coming for her and if she wants to keep her family safe, she must find him - before he finds her. Even if that means returning to the darkest parts of her past, the scariest place imaginable, home.

An unforgettable, read-in-one-sitting thriller packed with gripping suspense.
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'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH

'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Unlike anything else I've read. Haunting and unputdownable' LAURA MARSHALL, number one bestselling author of Friend Request

'Sensationally good, I loved this book' LEE CHILD

'Gorgeously written eerie suspense' KARIN SLAUGHTER

'SO GOOD' LAURA MARSHALL

'You won't be able to stop turning the pages' MEGAN ABBOTT

'A wonderful book... Mesmerising' ALEX MARWOOD

'A nail-biter' COSMOPOLITAN

'A knockout' SARAH HILARY

'I was absolutely gripped' GILLY MACMILLAN

'Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying' TEA OBREHT

'Original and exciting, with a thrilling ending' MARK EDWARDS
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