The bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel delivers a
"provocative, enthralling, bang up-to-the-minute" thriller (Daily
Mail).
It all starts with a prize. The Price family wins a holiday trip to
Florida and gets their photo in the paper. They're all there, the
picture-perfect family in front of their gorgeous home. But it's
awkward, adolescent, seventeen-year-old Hannah who catches someone's
eye. And only days later, she's gone.
Val and Morris Price try not to panic when Hannah doesn't return from
Camden Market on Sunday night. After all, she is a teenager. But when
Hannah still hasn't shown up on Monday, they start to think the
worst--then the ransom note comes with a demand for £500,000 and no
police. After days of tallying assets and scrambling for money, Val
makes the drop. Hannah comes home. Only what should be the end of a
nightmare is just the beginning . . .
The Prices' have lost their business and their home. Their sudden change
in fortune takes its toll, and family bonds slowly begin to
disintegrate. Meanwhile, the desperate couple who kidnapped Hannah
embark on a life of luxury that only fuels their twisted love. But what
goes up must come down . . . with a crash.
"A neat plot . . . [with] dark flashes of hubris and nemesis." --The
Guardian
"Moggach's subject is the rickety edifice we call the family, which she
comes at armed with both a wrecking ball and an insatiable curiosity to
note the particular way it collapses." --The Independent
"Deborah Moggach is a delight to read--her characters are wonderfully
alive, and their stories grip us unequivocally. . . . The novel is
enjoyable from first to last." --The Daily Telegraph
"It is characterisation at which Moggach excels. Her gift is to perceive
and describe our confusions about life . . . and to write with feeling
about the continual quest for love and happiness that is part of the
human condition." --The Sunday Times
