Hurry Home: A Novel
Jul 2020 · Crooked Lane Books
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From the bestselling author of Our Little Secret comes a “twisty, gripping” psychological thriller “with heart” set in the Rocky Mountains (Kaira Rouda, author of The Favorite Daughter)
Reunited for the first time since childhood, two estranged sisters fight to keep their darkest secret where it belongs—in the past.
Alexandra Van Ness has the perfect life. She lives in an idyllic resort town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, shares a designer loft with her handsome boyfriend, Chase, and has her dream job working in child protection. Every day, Alex goes above and beyond to save children at risk.
But when her long-lost sister, Ruth, unexpectedly shows up at her door, Alex’s perfect life is upended. Growing up, Ruth was always the troublemaker, pulling Alex into her messes, and this time will be no different. Still, Alex will help Ruth under one condition: we will never, ever, talk about the past. But when trouble befalls a local child, both women are forced to confront the secrets they’ve promised to keep buried.
Utterly engrossing and claustrophobic, Hurry Home is a tantalizing reflection of the chain-and-shackles relationship between sisters that asks: what lines wouldn't you cross for your own?
Reunited for the first time since childhood, two estranged sisters fight to keep their darkest secret where it belongs—in the past.
Alexandra Van Ness has the perfect life. She lives in an idyllic resort town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, shares a designer loft with her handsome boyfriend, Chase, and has her dream job working in child protection. Every day, Alex goes above and beyond to save children at risk.
But when her long-lost sister, Ruth, unexpectedly shows up at her door, Alex’s perfect life is upended. Growing up, Ruth was always the troublemaker, pulling Alex into her messes, and this time will be no different. Still, Alex will help Ruth under one condition: we will never, ever, talk about the past. But when trouble befalls a local child, both women are forced to confront the secrets they’ve promised to keep buried.
Utterly engrossing and claustrophobic, Hurry Home is a tantalizing reflection of the chain-and-shackles relationship between sisters that asks: what lines wouldn't you cross for your own?
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Linda Strong
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7 July 2020
Alex is a child protection social worker. She pours her heart and soul into protecting children from abusive parents, neglect. She's willing to do just about anything to defend these children. Her sister, Ruth, shows up unexpectedly ... they haven't been in contact for 10 years. During their childhood, Ruth was always the troublemaker, involving her sister. Not much has changed. Ruth is in trouble ... pregnant .. and on the run from her drug dealer boyfriend. Ruth grabbed a lot of drugs and a lot of cash when she left. Alex's boyfriend knows little of her upbringing. So when Ruth starts talking about their childhood ... their stories don't exactly match. Who's lying? Why? What is it that neither of them want revealed? There's no love lost between the sisters as this well-written story bounces back and forth between the girls and between times ... childhood and adulthood. I didn't particularly like either of the sisters. Even the secondary characters made me cringe for one reason or another.... because they were written skillfully enough to evoke my emotions. The plot is a bit complex, but riveting. The ending was totally unexpected. Many thanks to the author / Crooked Lane Books / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
About the author
Roz Nay's debut novel, Our Little Secret, was a national bestseller in Canada, won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France, and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award. Roz has lived and worked in Africa, Australia, the US, and the UK. She now lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband and two children.
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