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The Hidden Girls

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Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2021

How does the saying go? Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you . . .

For Ruth, a new mother recovering from postpartum psychosis, every day is difficult and, after months spent hearing voices in the walls and trusting no one, she’s no longer confident in her own judgement. Neither, it seems, is anyone else.

So, when she hears a scream from the local petrol station one night, she initially decides it must be her mind playing tricks again. The police, too, are polite but firm: she must stop calling them every time she thinks she hears something. And her husband is frustrated; he’d hoped Ruth was getting better at last.

Ruth can’t quite let it go . . . What if there was a scream? What if it was someone in trouble? Someone who needs Ruth’s help?

Exploring the dark and isolating side of motherhood, the question at the heart of Rebecca Whitney's The Hidden Girls is how much you can help someone else when you can’t trust anyone – even yourself . . .

Critics Review

Moving and terrifying, The Hidden Girls is a page-turning thriller with a compassionate heart that twists and turns on every page. I loved it
Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat and Crushed
An intriguing and suspenseful psychological thriller with a fascinating protagonist suffering from postpartum psychosis . . . Original and timely
Jenny Quintana, author of The Missing Girl and Our Dark Secret
Whitney is definitely a name to keep your eye on
Stylist
An extremely promising literary newcomer
Grazia
Pacy and pitch-dark
Sunday Mirror on The Liar's Chair
This impressive debut will cleverly draw you in, then spit you out shivering and on edge
Sun on The Liar's Chair
Compelling and unsettling
Laura Wilson in the Guardian on The Liar's Chair
Gripping
Bella
Author Rebecca Whitney
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 10 hours and 11 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781509838264
Format x-book®
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Psychological thriller
Availability GB, IE, US

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