This is the Water
Author(s): Yannick Murphy
This is a novel about a woman. About a mother. About a marriage. About a murder. In the brightly lit public pool the killer swims and watches. Amongst the mothers cheering on their swim team daughters is Annie. Watching her two girls race, she's thinking of other things. Her husband's emotional distance. Her lost brother. The man she's drawn to. Then she learns a terrible secret. Now her everyday cares and concerns seem meaningless. Annie knows she has to act. Above all, she must protect her children. Compulsively readable, it takes readers on a journey where none could guess the final outcome.
General Information
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- : Headline Publishing Group
- : Headline Review
- : 0.24
- : 01 July 2014
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Yannick Murphy
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 352
More About The Product
In this stunning, compulsively readable psychological drama, a killer swims in a public pool unnoticed by his future victims. A woman learns a terrible secret too dangerous to keep. And a mother prepares to do anything to keep her children safe.
A shocking murder rocks a swim team and the parents are left shaken. Their lives will never be the same. Murphy draws you in to each character, making them feel like people you know. Of course, there's a great twist ending too.
Elisa, Book Grocer
Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behaviour Dave Eggers Magical and harrowing Publishers Weekly (on HERE THEY COME) A wonderful novel. Original, suspenseful, funny and profoundly moving... I plan to recommend it to everyone I know Geraldine Brooks (on THE CALL) A hell of a book... It will haunt you Frank McCourt
Born and raised in New York, Yannick Murphy has an MA from New York University. She is the author of several novels for adults as well as short story collections and books for children. Her writing has won many prestigious awards, and she has talked about her work on radio, television and in person across the USA and Canada. She lives in Vermont. You can visit her website at www.yannickmurphy.com.
