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The Wrong Mother

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What to expect

One mother on the run.
A safe place to hide.
But you can't escape the past forever . . .

Faye is 39 and single. She's terrified she may never have the one thing she always wanted: a child of her own.

Then she discovers a co-parenting app: Acorns. For men and women who want to have a baby, but don't want to do it alone. When she meets Louis through it, it feels as though the fates have aligned.

But just one year later, Faye is on the run from Louis, with baby Jake in tow. In desperate need of a new place to live, she contacts Rachel, who's renting out a room in her remote Norfolk cottage. It's all Faye can afford - and surely she'll be safe from Louis there?

(P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited

But is Rachel the benevolent landlady she pretends to be? Or does she have a secret of her own?


HEAR WHAT EVERYONE'S SAYING ABOUT CHARLOTTE DUCKWORTH'S NOVELS:

'Smart, compulsively readable and with an end you won't see coming' Woman & Home

'Surprising and original' Lesley Kara

'A real thrill ride' Heat

'I love Charlotte's dark, messy takes on modern relationships' Claire McGowan

'A taut, chilling read with a killer twist' Sun

'Tense, twisty and deeply unsettling' BP Walter

'Unpredictable, tense and engrossing' Rebecca Fleet

'A writer at the top of her thriller game' Louise Mumford

Critics Review

I read The Wrong Mother in two days - it's full of pace, intrigue, and suspense. It also has one of the best characters I've read in a thriller. Charlotte's writing just gets stronger and stronger. I absolutely adored it!!
L V Matthews
An absolutely terrific read. Pulled me in and kept me guessing. Great characters too!
Emma Curtis
Another pulse-pounding read from Charlotte Duckworth! The Wrong Mother is dark, deftly written and impossible not to binge-read in one sitting
Louise Mumford
When Misery met Magpie . . . this is the perfect thriller. Unsettling and sinister. I devoured it. Charlotte's best yet
Emily Freud
A masterfully executed corkscrew of a story and an absolute must-read for thriller fans, who will love it
J A Corrigan
Charlotte Duckworth is becoming a name domestic noir fans look out for. The Wrong Mother is her darkest and most chilling novel to date and will keep you reading until all the threads are untangled
Promoting Crime Fiction
Smart, compulsively readable and with an ending you will not see coming
Woman & Home
A real thrill ride
Heat
A writer at the top of her thriller game
Louise Mumford
A perfect domestic suspense, wonderfully sinister and compelling with a pounding sense of upcoming doom
Caroline Hulse
Modern, smart and fast-paced, this thriller had me hooked from the first page
Ruth Heald
Surprising and original
Lesley Kara
Get ready for a roller-coaster ride with this tense and twisty story of two women with dark secrets'
Heat
Twisty and tense!
Peterborough Telegraph
A brilliant thriller
Closer
Satisfyingly scary and twisty
Irish Independent
Fast-paced, twisty and utterly addictive
Women's Own
[A] corking, very modern thriller
The Spectator
Author Charlotte Duckworth
Narrator Harrie Dobby, Patience Tomlinson
Duration 10 hours
Release Date
ISBN 9781529423020
Format Audiobook
Publisher Quercus
Genre Domestic abuse, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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