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The Blamed
The compelling, thought-provoking new novel from bestselling author Emily Hourican.
It was the best summer of Anna's life. The summer she fell in love. The summer she found out who she was, and felt for the first time the great, magnetic pull of life, and knew she could have all of it.
But she was wrong -- and has been keeping a painful secret ever since.
Now, fifteen years later, Anna is struggling to get through to her troubled daughter -- named Jessie in memory of Anna's best friend. While once they were close, now Jessie keeps her mother at a distance, her every word and action a mystery. Though, sometimes, Anna wonders if Jessie can see right through her.
And when her daughter starts to ask questions about the past, and her namesake, Anna realises that the truth is threatening to escape and tip the delicate balance of their lives forever.
It was the best summer of Anna's life. The summer she fell in love. The summer she found out who she was, and felt for the first time the great, magnetic pull of life, and knew she could have all of it.
But she was wrong -- and has been keeping a painful secret ever since.
Now, fifteen years later, Anna is struggling to get through to her troubled daughter -- named Jessie in memory of Anna's best friend. While once they were close, now Jessie keeps her mother at a distance, her every word and action a mystery. Though, sometimes, Anna wonders if Jessie can see right through her.
And when her daughter starts to ask questions about the past, and her namesake, Anna realises that the truth is threatening to escape and tip the delicate balance of their lives forever.
352 pages, Paperback
Published January 15, 2019
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About the author
Emily Hourican
16 books96 followersEmily Hourican is a journalist and author. She has written features for the Sunday Independent for fifteen years, as well as Image magazine, Condé Nast Traveler and Woman and Home. She was also editor of The Dubliner Magazine.
Emily's first book, a memoir titled How To (Really) Be A Mother was published in 2013. She is also the author of novels The Privileged, White Villa, The Outsider and The Blamed, as well as two bestselling novels about the Guinness sisters: The Glorious Guinness Girls and The Guinness Girls: A Hint of Scandal.
She lives in Dublin with her family.
source: Amazon
Emily's first book, a memoir titled How To (Really) Be A Mother was published in 2013. She is also the author of novels The Privileged, White Villa, The Outsider and The Blamed, as well as two bestselling novels about the Guinness sisters: The Glorious Guinness Girls and The Guinness Girls: A Hint of Scandal.
She lives in Dublin with her family.
source: Amazon
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July 1, 2020
Emily Hourican writes with detailed perception about a complex journey through eating disorders via the voices of mother and daughter, Anna and Jessie. Their story is painful to read at times but insightful to the point of total understanding. History repeating itself in the challenging teenage years, Anna tries to give Jessie the love and support she knows she needs, using her own early experience and the tragic death of her best friend while they were on holiday together. Jessie has learned to rebel, to win each battle, to perhaps find out a little more about her mother's story.
This is intricately layered storytelling by a talented author.
This is intricately layered storytelling by a talented author.
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