Mother, Mother: Psychological suspense for fans of ROOM

Mother, Mother: Psychological suspense for fans of ROOM
Koren Zailckas

An electrifying debut novel about what happens when the one who should love you the most becomes your worst enemy. Sure to appeal to fans of GONE GIRL and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVINMeet the Hurst Family.Meet Violet Hurst -16 years old, beautiful and brilliant. So why is she being accused of being a danger to herself and others?Meet her brother Will Hurst – the smartest and sweetest twelve-year old boy around. But does he really need all that medication he is being told to take?Meet oldest sister Rose – the one who got away. She disappeared one night in her final year of school, never to be heard from again.

Mother, Mother

Koren Zailckas

A family is a tyranny ruled over by its weakest member.

—GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

through fog, it is impossible to perceive fiery eyes greedy claws jaws through fog one sees only the shimmering of nothingness … were it not for its suffocating weight and the death it sends down one would think it is the hallucination of a sick imagination but it exists for certain it exists

—ZBIGNIEW HERBERT,

“THE MONSTER OF MR. COGITO”

Table of Contents

Cover (#u1176b472-6f83-5154-b5b2-6fef5ea17609)

Title Page (#ud2782ac9-1407-541b-8beb-dadf12995faa)

Epigraph (#u5a1decfd-b136-5b46-8c0b-51d68bbe2d60)

William Hurst (#u1d9e1951-934b-54f2-8601-f21cbab1ac38)

Violet Hurst (#u7b03b3c1-7c24-535d-af39-9528e46ad962)

William Hurst (#u8b23abcc-b3b7-5e29-8e06-6e2f2c7b356c)

Violet Hurst (#u71ba4129-5fbe-534d-a7b7-cf9fecea2c2d)

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