The Wrong Mother: the heart-pounding, twisty thriller with a chilling end

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The BMW Samantha drives would have a built in alarm system, it's completely unbelievable Vanessa would be able to access it.

Then Faye finds herself on the run with her baby. She must get away from Louis. She finds an ad to share a cottage in a remote Norfolk village with Rachel. The price is right and it should be far enough away that Louis won't be able to find her. What Faye doesn't realize is that Rachels last tenant disappeared under mysterious circumstances. This is a very straightforward and no fuss thriller. There are no unnecessary items or twists to get caught up on. I really appreciated this after reading a super twisty and messy book the other day. The pacing of this one was fantastic, and it kept me engaged throughout. I didn’t quite realize what I was getting into when I selected this one. I am not usually a huge fan of the whole “I need a child to be fulfilled” Soooooo now that I have told you my sad tale...on to THE WRONG MOTHER. FYI- This is my favorite book in the series so far. Is Sophie Hannah a literary genius? Nah. But hey, all you haters — I invite you to try constructing a plot like this one: twisty, intricate, and relentlessly leave-'em-guessing. I was engrossed, and I admired this thriller all the way through. This story also hangs on some deliciously nerdy hinges: idioms, the way in which a native versus a non-native English speaker writes, and — be still my heart! — the perils of find/replace in MS Word. Faye is 39 years old and still single. She longs to have a child of her own but with out any prospects on the horizon it appears her wish for motherhood may never come true. That is until she stumbles upon a mating app. That's right, not a dating app, a mating app where other single people that want children can meet other likeminded people and can co-parent together.So, not slow starting, maybe just building, is a good word. My advice is not to put it down but keep reading through the slightly odd because it gets good. Mykel Shannon Jenkins gives a first rate portrayal of Detective Dawkins, the hard nosed cop, who can smell something is not right. Sally is married with two young kids while working full time. She is always stressed, tired and in a flap. But she wouldn’t change anything. When a work trip falls through Sally realises just how much she was looking forward to the break. So instead of telling her husband, she goes away for the week anyway for some “me time.”

Whenever I finally thought I had it all figured out, the author threw another twist into the plot, until finally, as the intrigue seems to be falling into place, it knots itself up again. A disturbed woman, Vanessa Renzi, ( Brooke Nevin) hunts down the family who received her egg donation. She plans on reclaiming 'her family', the twins she believes belong to her, and the man who fathered them. If the woman who gave birth to them, Kaylene ( Vanessa Marcil), gets in her way, Vanessa will do whatever it takes to keep 'her' family together. Whatever it takes.... Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 27 countries. In 2013, her latest novel, The Carrier, won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards. Two of Sophie’s crime novels, The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives, have been adapted for television and appeared on ITV1 under the series title Case Sensitive in 2011 and 2012. In 2004, Sophie won first prize in the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her suspense story The Octopus Nest, which is now published in her first collection of short stories, The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets. For that matter, I felt the end of the whole thing was abrupt. This was the first of Hannah's books that I've read, and having now read Hurting Distance, I get the Waterhouse-Zailer relationship better, but for such an intense book, I was disappointed to have a sitcommy joke to end it.

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My biggest problem with Sally is her utter self-centeredness. The setup isn't new: heroine discovers emergency, cannot rely on police, does own investigation and finds the killer. What is different is that, this time, the problem isn't that the police are too dumb to solve it themselves (although they are rather dumb this time) but that Sally doesn't want to have to tell the police her secret, which, if it got out, would ruin her marriage. But, you know, this is an emergency: someone tried to push her under a bus, and now she's being followed.

This is a Made-For-TV movie, please keep that in mind before you watch\rate it. TV movies have a much lower budget, and so your expectations should be adjusted. The setting of a lot of the book in Helston in Norfolk, and how the village was preparing for its annual Bonfire Night celebrations that were known County wide There is a remark made by the sociologist about appearances being a matter of life or death to upper middle class families, so maybe the author is making a point about that too, but I doubt it. I just. Don't think much of the main character. I guess it's good that not every female lead needs to be a mega-competent Mary Sue, and it's great that Sally is human and flawed, but because I didn't think much of her I wasn't especially delighted at her happy ending. We all know that having two or more children under five is the very definition of hell on earth, and holding down a job at the same time is a few circles down that hell. But just to make the point, a major section of the beginning of the book is dedicated to Sally's complaints about basically every component of her privileged lifestyle and her disdain for everyone who supports it, especially the childminder whose criticisms of Sally seem quite accurate (and whose later actions come close to saving Sally's life). From the start, she is completely contemptuous and dismissive of her husband, whom she regards as an extra child who has to be fobbed off and kept strictly in the dark about everything. By the end of the book, this has not changed. In fact, all of the fathers in the book are disconnected, ineffectual and utterly incapable of protecting their families in an emergency. The one possible exception is Kombothekra, who is portrayed as possibly a good father but makes notably little impact in solving this case.Lily finally goes to Maddie’s house for about 5 mins and then finds photos of her family and a therapist card on a desk. Lily goes to the office of the therapist, who lets her come in and talk without an appointment. The therapist is trying to diagnose Lily with anxiety? Lily keeps trying to clarify that she doesn’t need therapy, she is trying to see if a patient is dangerous. When the therapist hears Maddie’s name, she is like… oh her? She is VERY dangerous. (The therapist should know, she gets murdered in the next scene.) Faye is 39 and single. She's terrified she may never have the one thing she always wanted: a child of her own. A murder mystery, a psychological study—these elements are set against an almost comedic exploration of the police detectives assigned to the case to form a multilayered drama.

I usually really enjoy Sophie Hannah's books and I would still recommend them to any new readers. Having said that, this particular instalment is the weakest I've read so far.I find it baffling that females in TV movies look like feminine and attractive, while "females" in mainstream movies look like men. It's crazy. You look at these TV-Movie actresses, then look at mainstream actresses, and you gotta ask what the hell is going on? Maddie spends the middle half of this movie peaking over door frames and reviewing nanny cam footage. She is pretty stalkery.