The Point of Rescue

Author Sophie Hannah
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Run Time 13 hours and 51 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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What to expect

Sally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: Mark Bretherick. Last year, a business trip Sally had planned was cancelled at the last minute. Desperate for a break from her busy life juggling work and a young family, Sally didnt tell her husband that the trip had fallen through. Instead, she booked a week off work and treated herself to a secret holiday. All she wanted was a bit of peace some time to herself but it didnt work out that way. Because Sally met a man Mark Bretherick. All the details are the same: where he lives, his job, his wife Geraldine and daughter Lucy. Except that the man on the news is a man Sally has never seen before. And Geraldine and Lucy Bretherick are both dead . . .

(P)2008 ISIS Publishing Ltd

Critics Review

For those who demand emotional intelligence and literary verve from their thrillers, Sophie Hannah is the writer of choice. THE POINT OF RESCUE, her third, combines a creepily irresistible page-turner with an exploration of motherhood’s taboos

Guardian

Tension, thy name is Sophie Hannah. In THE POINT OF RESCUE, murder, false identity and infidelity are thet tools Hannah deploys to create a plausible but edge-of-your-seat read

Independent

The tension is screwed ever tighter until the final shocking outcome

Daily Express

Hannah doesn’t allow the tension to slacken for a second in this addictive, brilliantly chilling thriller.

Book of the Month, Marie Claire

Sophie Hannah just gets better and better, with experience adding rocket fuel to her already high-octane yarns . . . Brilliantly cunning and entirely unpredictable

Guardian

Sophie Hannah’s ingenious, almost surreal mysteries are so intricately constructed that it’s impossible to guess how they will end . . . A compelling and disquieting story, told with the author’s usual panache

Sunday Telegraph

Every so often a writer comes along whose freshness and originality blows the competition out of the water…Genuinely gripping, full of the unseen and yet fitting twists and turns that make good quality crime fiction such a pleasure

Yorkshire Post

Brilliantly creepy

Red Magazine

I’m surprised I had any nails left by the end of this addictive thriller

Eve

This disturbing tale is a cut above the average crime thriller, with an intelligent and inventive plot that raises questions about identity, guilt and the taboo of unfulfilling motherhood

Psychologies

A great read and an involving thriller

She

Hannah is an expert in creepy scenarios and plot twists that keep you guessing until the last page. The tension doesn’t slacken for a second

Grazia

Hannah has established herself as a writer of offbeat thrillers that skillfully play on contemporary anxieties about motherhood and marriage. What keeps one reading is the creepy plausibility the author brings to her portrayal of a mind unhinged by the demands of parenthood

The Times

Hannah constructs a thriller that twists and turns satisfyingly through a series of ever-more surprising revelations

The Sunday Times

Statistics show that more and more women are committing acts of “family annihilation”. In THE POINT OF RESCUE Sophie Hannah tackles this distressing subject with sensitivity, while spinning a cracking story

Daily Telegraph

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