his parents have retired after selling their business and properties, and moved to a small town in sweden, near the place his mother tilde grew up, and then ran away from at the age of fifteen. This is one of those psychological thrillers with a possibly-unreliable narrator, a maybe/maybe not crime, and a boatload of both family and smalltown secrets.ĭaniel is 29, living in london with his boyfriend mark, and working a job that is not making the most of his expensive educational background. Meet me at Heathrow."Ĭaught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of a horrible crime and a conspiracy that implicates his own father. Everything that man has told you is a lie. Before he can board the plane, his father contacts him with even more frightening news: his mother has discharged herself from hospital and he doesn't know where she is. She has had a psychotic breakdown and been committed to a mental hospital.ĭaniel prepares to rush to Sweden on the first available flight.
She's been imagining things-terrible, terrible things. Your mother's not well, his father tells him. They had sold their home and business in London and bid farewell to England, setting off to begin life anew on a remote, bucolic farm in rural Sweden.īut with that phone call, everything changes. Until the moment he receives a frantic call from his father, Daniel believed his parents were headed into a peaceful, well-deserved retirement. From Tom Rob Smith-author of the phenomenal Child 44 trilogy-comes one of the most anticipated novels of 2014.
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