Paula Daly est une auteure acclamée dont six romans ont obtenu une reconnaissance internationale, vendus dans seize pays et présélectionnés pour le prix CWA Gold Dagger. Son écriture se caractérise par des récits captivants et une profonde perspicacité psychologique de ses personnages. Daly explore avec maestria les complexités des relations et les secrets cachés qui se trouvent sous la surface de la vie ordinaire.
Your friend's child is missing. It's your fault. No family is perfect. A husband, three children and a full-time job, so many plates to keep spinning. No wonder you forgot you were supposed to be looking after your friend's daughter. But no one has seen her since yesterday. And she's not the first to go missing from your small town. So who's hiding something?
The basis for DEEP WATER, now a major ITV TV series, starring Anna Friel. 'One of the most hypnotically gripping books I've read in a long, long time.' TESS GERRITSEN Your friend's child is missing. It's your fault. No family is perfect. A husband, three children and a full-time job, so many plates to keep spinning. No wonder you forgot you were supposed to be looking after your friend's daughter. But no one has seen her since yesterday. And she's not the first to go missing from your small town. So who's hiding something? 'She writes with a singular voice and a passion that roars off the page . . . With a sharp, double-twist ending it announces Daly as a potential star' Daily Mail 'Fiendishly addictive' Guardian 'Riveting! Daly plunges straight into the heart of every parent's worst nightmare with page-turning results' Lisa Gardner 'The sort of book that causes you to lose half a day without even noticing' Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner
'Fiendishly addictive' GUARDIAN Your best friend isn't who you think she is. You've been friends since university, when you became the people you are today. You don't see each other enough but when you do it's as if you've never been apart. She's one of the family. You would trust her with your life, your children, your husband. And when your daughter is rushed to hospital, you're grateful that she's stepping in at home, looking after things. But your best friend isn't who you think she is. You're about to find out just how wrong you were.
If you slept with a stranger for money, who'd really end up paying? 'A page-turning thriller with heart' Ren�e Knight, author of Disclaimer We all think we know who we are. What we're capable of. Roz is a single mother, a physiotherapist, a sister, a friend. She's also desperate. Her business has gone under, she's crippled by debt and she's just had to explain to her son why someone's taken all their furniture away. But now a stranger has made her an offer. For one night with her, he'll pay enough to bring her back from the edge. Roz has a choice to make. 'A big-hearted, empathetic novel about ordinary lives and the tremors that can rock them' Guardian
With six unpublished novels, it feels to Jane like her writing career is going nowhere. Her husband Leon, on the other hand, is a successful author. Jane is happy for him, but it doesn't make the constant rejections any easier. She prefers to focus on what's going well, on the good things in life. But it all changes on Leon's forty-sixth birthday, when he is attacked by an unknown assailant and ends up in a coma. As Jane tries to deal with the fallout, she wants answers. But what she ends up with is more questions. She can't pretend everything is fine anymore. Everything is FAR from fine. Will Jane finally get to uncover the truth, and the secrets that have been kept from her? And will she be able to handle what she hears?
‘The UK’s answer to Liane Moriarty. Amazing.’ Claire McGowanInnocent?When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband’s lover, she denied it. She denied it when they arrested her, when they put her in front of a jury, and when they sent her to prison.Now she’s three years into a fifteen-year sentence, away from the daughter she loves and the life she had built. And she is still denying that she is to blame.Guilty?Tess Gilroy has devoted her life to righting wrongs. Through her job for Innocence UK, a charity which takes on alleged miscarriages of justice, she works tirelessly to uncover the truth.But when she is asked to take Carrie’s case, Tess realises that if she is to help this woman, she must risk uncovering the secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide . . .We’ve all done things we’re not proud of.
A doting mother or a pushy parent? Karen Bloom expects perfection. Her son, Ewan, has been something of a disappointment and she wonâe(tm)t be making the same mistake again with her beloved, talented child, Bronte. Bronteâe(tm)s every waking hour will be spent at music lessons and dance classes, doing extra schoolwork and whatever it takes to excel. But as Karen pushes Bronte to the brink, the rest of the family crumbles. Karenâe(tm)s husband, Noel, is losing himself in work, and his teenage daughter from his first marriage, Verity, is becoming ever more volatile. The family is dangerously near breaking point. Karen would know when to stop . . . wouldnâe(tm)t she?
