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

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