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    Jennifer Woodward

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    10hr 31m

Pretty Is: A gripping, dark and superbly suspenseful psychological thriller

Maggie Mitchell

6 Reviews

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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense

A dark and disturbing psychological thriller debut - perfect for fans of The Ice Twins and I Let You Go.

Everyone thought we were dead...

Two girls went missing - and now the truth is coming back to haunt them...

Lois and Carly-May were just twelve when they were abducted by a stranger and imprisoned in a cabin in the woods for two months.

That summer, under the watchful gaze of their kidnapper, they formed a bond that would never be broken.

Decades later, both women have new lives and identities. But the events of that summer are about to come back with a vengeance.

Lois and Carly-May must face the truth about their secret, shared past...

What really happened in the woods that summer?

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Praise for Pretty Is: A gripping, dark and superbly suspenseful psychological thriller

  • [A] psychologically astute tale about identity, mask-wearing and escaping the past, from the contrapuntal plotting to the heroines' deftly differentiated voices - SUNDAY TIMES

  • There is a real ring of truth to this intelligent thriller, full of psychological tension. A great debut - SUNDAY MIRROR

  • A gripping thriller with an incisive psychological twist, examining survival, friendship and memory. - THE LADY

  • A whip-smart beach read - SUNDAY EXPRESS

  • The survivors of a mysterious childhood abduction struggle with their memories in Maggie Mitchell's teasing, many-storied debut... Ever since Emma Donoghue, inspired by the Josef Fritzl case, impressed and horrified in equal measure with Room, there has been a slowly growing trend for thrillers about abducted children. Maggie Mitchell's debut, Pretty Is, joins a phalanx of fellow kidnap-lit novels out in recent months - The Girl in the Red Coat, How I Lost You, The Boy That Never Was - but stands out for its slick, subversive take on a trope that is showing no signs of going away. - OBSERVER

  • An atmospheric psychological thriller with two complex female characters at its heart, PRETTY IS deserves a place on your bookshelf. - HEAT

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Maggie Mitchell

Maggie Mitchell has published short fiction in a number of literary magazines, including the New Ohio Review, American Literary Review, and Green Mountains Review. Her story 'It Would Be Different If' is included in the Bedford Introduction to Literature. She teaches English and creative writing at the University of West Georgia.

Follow Maggie on Twitter @memitchell_99

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