The Darkness Between Us - John Marrs (9789669937643)

Have you ever been angry at your parents for unceremoniously meddling in your affairs? Or did you think that you were helping your children, when in fact you were ruining their lives? This is what it sometimes leads to...

Maggie's payback seems to be terrible. It seems that her guilt before her daughter Nina is doubly terrible. Darkness lay between them. Every two days the women have dinner together. And then the daughter takes Maggie to the attic, to the crow's nest, and chains her to the floor. This is retribution. The mother did something that her daughter will never forgive her for. Never. Let him rot to death in this dark closet with blank walls and unbreakable windows, with a heavy chain around his ankle. So great is the daughter's hatred.
But there is something that Nina doesn’t know. And her mother will never tell her - even at the cost of her life. After all, in their house, truth is more dangerous than lies...

This is an incredibly disturbing, heartbreaking thriller. It will absorb you, shake your imagination, revealing more and more terrible secrets. You will have to decide whether at least one of the heroines deserves sympathy and which of them is the main monster.

“It was impossible to part with this book. Dark and twisted, it captivated me." - Alex Michaelides, bestselling author of The Silent Patient
"The most sinister of Marrs' novels to date" - Daily Express
"A dark, suspenseful psychological thriller of the highest order" - My Weekly
“Brilliantly conceived and masterfully mastered the art of shocking twists” - Claire McGowan
“I'm captivated by this novel, although I don't think I've read anything darker. Nothing" - Susie Halliday