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The Other Mothers
The Other Mothers
The Other Mothers
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The Other Mothers

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“A deliciously twisted thriller!” —People

A shocking murder rattles an exclusive London neighborhood in this “fast-paced, decadent skewering of upper middle-class motherhood” (Sarah Bonner, New York Times bestselling author) from the author of Greenwich Park.

Four new mothers…one exclusive playgroup…two murders.

New mom Tash is intrigued when a young nanny is found dead under mysterious circumstances. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else—new friends to help her navigate motherhood.

She sees them at her son’s new playgroup: the other mothers. A group of sleek, sophisticated women who live in a neighborhood of tree-lined avenues and stunning houses. The sort of mothers Tash would like to be. When the mothers welcome her into their circle, she discovers the kind of life she has always dreamt of—their elegant London townhouses a far cry from her cramped basement flat and endless bills. She is quickly swept up into their wealthy world via coffees, cocktails, and playdates.

But when another young woman is found dead, it’s clear there’s much more to the tight-knit community than meets the eye. The more Tash investigates, the more she’s led uncomfortably close to the other mothers. Are these women really her friends? Or is there another, more dangerous reason why she has been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world? Who, exactly, is investigating who?

The author of Greenwich Park returns with this whip-smart novel that “pulls out all the psychological thriller stops—and then some” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGallery Books
Release dateDec 5, 2023
ISBN9781668024805
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Katherine Faulkner

Katherine Faulkner, an award-winning journalist, studied history at Cambridge. She has worked as an investigative reporter and an editor and was formerly the joint Head of News at The Times (London). She lives in London, where she grew up, with her husband and two daughters. She is the author of The Other Mothers and Greenwich Park. 

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    This starts with freelance journalist Tash being interviewed at a police station and then goes back in time to explain how she got there. That in turn involves going back further in time with chapters from the perspective of Sophie, whose death intrigues Tash. Sophie's death was assumed to be an accident, but Tash (and Sophie's mother) think it was murder.This is fairly slow to come together, although after I while I realized the Sophie chapters were keeping pace with the things Tash was uncovering. I enjoyed it, although there are a lot of books like it around at the moment. It works if you accept that a woman might be friends with people she doesn't like and be married to some one she can suddenly conceive of having murdered a young woman. It kept me guessing and kept me reading, but I doubt I will remember it for long.

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