My Sister's Bones

<p><strong>Rivals <em>The Girl on the Train</em> as a compulsive read (and beats it for style). -- <em>Observer </em>(UK)</strong></p><p>In the vein of Fiona Barton's <em>The Widow</em> and Renée Knight's <em>Disclaimer</em> a psychological thriller about a war reporter who returns to her childhood home after her mother's death but becomes convinced that all is not well in the house next door--but is what she's seeing real or a symptom of the trauma she suffered in Syria?</p><p><em>The One Person You Should Trust Is Lying to You...<br/><br/></em>Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war reporter she's always in a place of conflict writing about ordinary people in unimaginable situations. When her mother dies Kate returns home from Syria for the funeral. But an incident with a young Syrian boy haunts her dreams and when Kate sees a boy in the garden of the house next door--a house inhabited by an Iraqi refugee who claims her husband is away and she has no children--Kate becomes convinced that something is very wrong. </p><p>As she struggles to separate her memories of Syria from the quiet town in which she grew up--and also to reconcile her memories of a traumatic childhood with her sister's insistence that all was not as Kate remembers--she begins to wonder what is actually true...and what is just in her mind.<br/><br/>In this gripping timely debut Nuala Ellwood brings us an unforgettable damaged character a haunting humanizing look at the Syrian conflict and a deeply harrowing psychological thriller that readers won't be able to put down.<br/><br/><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p>