Mum’s the word
Mar 07, 2021
2 minutes
by MAGGIE TRAPP
s its title suggests, begins headlong, propelling us into a gripping story before we’ve even had time to brace ourselves. It opens with a high-stakes scene in which the narrator, addressing an unnamed , stares from her parked car into a gaily lit living-room window behind which her young daughter is celebrating Christmas without her. The scene is taut, the
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