{"product_id":"winter-s-child-book-cassandra-parkin-9781785079030","title":"The Winter's Child","description":"\u003cb\u003e'One of the best books I've read all year ... A tender, raw, heartbreaking brutally honest look at how much a mother can love a child. An over-used phrase but I could not put down this raw, intense thriller. A beautiful, tense, complex thriller.'\u003c\/b\u003eAdele Parks \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fresh. Original. Spell-binding.'\u003c\/b\u003eJane Corry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wonderful writer with a painterly eye for detail... There are some brilliant twists.'\u003c\/b\u003eWendy Holden, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFive years ago, Susannah Harper's son Joel went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband John, Susannah tries to accept that she may never know for certain what has happened to her lost loved ones. She has rebuilt her life around a simple selfless mission: to help others who, like her, must learn to live without hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction. Susannah is told that this Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs her carefully-constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah is drawn into a world of psychics and charlatans, half-truths and hauntings, friendships and betrayals, forcing her to confront the buried truths of her family's past, where nothing and no one are quite as they seem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCassandra Parkin brings us a ghostly winter mystery with a modern gothic flavor. A dark tale of twisted love, marriage, family secrets and hauntings, Parkin keeps us guessing throughout. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A \u003cb\u003egripping\u003c\/b\u003etale of mother love' \u003ci\u003eSam Hepburn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eWow.\u003c\/b\u003eI have always loved Parkin's books - have read every single one - but oh, this is a treat. All her usual talents are present and accounted for; beautiful prose, thoughtful and real characters, gorgeous story. But this one is \u003cb\u003edarker, twistier,\u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eutterly addictive\u003c\/b\u003e. Watch out world, this one should be huge!' \u003ci\u003eLouise Beech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Cassandra Parkin's \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Child\u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping\u003cb\u003ethriller\u003c\/b\u003efrom beginning to end, certain to \u003cb\u003echill and haunt\u003c\/b\u003e... a journey filled with\u003cb\u003eskillful twists and turns on every page\u003c\/b\u003e. A fantastic, \u003cb\u003eeerie\u003c\/b\u003estory ... The prose is eloquent and skilful. From the first chapter, the characters develop into tangible, fully realized people. The cast exists in a foreboding world, a \u003cb\u003edark atmosphere\u003c\/b\u003ethat Parkin deftly crafts with each scene ... \u003cb\u003edeeply disturbing,\u003c\/b\u003e intimate,and effective.  In addition, there is an underlying commentary on\u003cb\u003egender\u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003emotherhood\u003c\/b\u003ethat further deepens the novel's scope. \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Child\u003c\/i\u003eis a stunning, beautifully disturbing \u003cb\u003emystery\u003c\/b\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eMYA ALEXICE, Foreword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570270937361,"sku":"GOR008845263","price":3.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49602573205777,"sku":"GOR010753270","price":4.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737221275921,"sku":"NGR9781785079030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332660265233,"sku":"CIN1785079034VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53651626492177,"sku":"CIN1785079034G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1785079034.jpg?v=1750802309","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/winter-s-child-book-cassandra-parkin-9781785079030","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}