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Product Details
Washington Square Press, May 2011
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1439196397
ISBN-13: 9781439196397
Description
HOW WELL CAN A MOTHER EVER REALLY KNOW HER CHILD? Julian and Annie have only just announced their forthcoming marriage when Annie’s twelve-year-old son, Dan, fails to come home from school. Despite an extensive police investigation, the days turn into weeks and it is as if Dan has vanished into thin air. Over the next three years Annie refuses to give up hope that somewhere her son is alive and will one day return home. Julian, meanwhile, can’t help but yearn for Annie to put the past behind her and move on. Then, out of the blue, a call brings shocking news of Dan’s fate. And far from being over, it seems the mystery of his disappearance is only just beginning. In spare, searing prose, Deceptions addresses our simultaneous need for—and wariness of—human connection and the extremes that we are driven to by these competing impulses. Marking British literary star Rebecca Frayn’s arrival in the United States, this is fiction at its riveting best.
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Prologue“A compulsive thriller with echoes of Ruth Rendell…Superb.”
-- The Times
“Great psychological insight lies at the heart of this disturbing, gripping story.”
-- Daily Mirror
"Clever, unpredictable and utterly gripping from start to finish."
-- Heat Magazine
"A stylishly written page-turner by a novelist of skill and authority."
-- The Daily Mail
"A masterful thriller"
-- The Sunday Express
"This is a book that grabs you from the opening pages and will prove very difficult to put down."
-- Reader's Digest
"Fans of Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal will love this"
-- Red
“Gripping emotional drama. Unsettlingly compelling."
-- Easy Living
Aborbing...It’s the sort of book that as soon as you think you can see where it might be going it takes a quite unexpected turn...A truly gripping read that had me hooked from the first page"
-- Bookbag
"A thoughtful thriller…will evoke deserved comparisons to authors like Laura Lippman and Ruth Rendell."
-- Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Reminds us that truth is often stranger than fiction. Will appeal to fans of mystery and psychological suspense.”
-- Library Journal
Blogcritics.org, April 22, 2011
...I seriously doubt that there is any way one human being can experience the terror and dread when a loved one seems to simply evaporate. Imagine being Annie whose twelve year old son starts for home at day's end, mounts his bicycle, and ...
Blogcritics.org, April 21, 2011
...Share Author: Regis Schilken — Published: Apr 21, 2011 at 6:11 am 0 comments I seriously doubt that there is any way one human being can experience the terror and dread when a loved one seems to simply evaporate. Imagine being Annie whose ...
Blogcritics.org, April 21, 2011
...Most recent articles site-wide No Immediate Threat Seen in Apple iPhone Location Tracking File by Sippable Book Review: Deceptions by Rebecca Frayn by Regis Schilken Book Review: Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist's Journey Through ...
