The Daughter

'Breathless, exciting debut.' SUNDAY TIMES, Best new crime books of 2022

'Totally engrossing.' JO BRAND

'Beautifully observed.' DAILY MAIL

'A must read.' SOPHIE HANNAH, author of HAVEN'T THEY GROWN

A compelling, darkly amusing debut.' CD MAJOR, author of THE OTHER GIRL

'Liz Webb creates a dark tangled web in The Daughter.' The Irish Independent
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FAMILIES CAN BE MURDER

I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years.
"Dad, did you murder Mum?"

Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose suspicious death opened up fault lines beneath the surface of their ordinary family life.

Hannah is disturbed by the uncanny resemblance she now has to her glamorous mother. She begins to exploit this arresting likeness to force the truth into the light, but in doing so is propelled into a fatal standoff she could never have foreseen.

Auteur

Liz Webb

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I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years.
"Dad, did you murder Mum?"

Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden fault lines beneath the ordinary surface of their family life. Hannah is losing her grip on both a cache of shameful secrets and her drinking, and her habit of gorging on almost inedible quince makes it patently clear that her life is a mess.

Now the spitting image of Jen Davidson and exactly the same age she was when she died, Hannah is determined to uncover exactly what happened to her mum.

But the boundaries between mother and daughter soon become blurred and Hannah discovers that she may not win the dangerous game she's playing.