The Marsh King's Daughter: A one-more-page, read-in-one-sitting thriller that you'll remember for ever
Jun 2017 · Hachette UK
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You've met Kya, the 'marsh girl' now meet Helena, 'the marsh king's daughter...'
'What to read after Where the Crawdads Sing' AMAZON
'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'I loved this book' LEE CHILD
'Gorgeously written eerie suspense' KARIN SLAUGHTER
You'd recognise my mother's name if I told it to you. You'd wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn't she have a daughter while she was missing?
And whatever happened to the little girl?
Helena's home is now like anyone else's, with a husband and two daughters and a job she enjoys. But no one knows the truth about her childhood.
Brought up in a cabin in the wilderness until she was twelve, Helena's father kept her and her mother isolated and unable to leave their marshland home, until the fateful day Helena escaped and her father faced justice.
Now years later and with news that he has escaped from prison, Helena instinctively knows that her father is coming for her and if she is to keep her family safe, she must once again return to the marsh, to confront him in the wilderness and become the Marsh King's daughter once again.
An unforgettable and emotional read-in-one-sitting story packed with gripping suspense.
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'Kya, the main character in Crawdads, is known as the "Marsh Girl." The Marsh King's Daughter shares the marsh moniker, along with the mystery and thriller elements of Crawdads... if you're looking for another strong female character and a book where the characters are of their environment, this book might do the trick' AMAZON
'Unlike anything else I've read. Haunting and unputdownable' LAURA MARSHALL
'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'You won't be able to stop turning the pages' MEGAN ABBOTT
'A wonderful book... Mesmerising' ALEX MARWOOD
'A nail-biter' COSMOPOLITAN
'A knockout' SARAH HILARY
'I was absolutely gripped' GILLY MACMILLAN
'Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying' TÉA OBREHT
'Original and exciting, with a thrilling ending' MARK EDWARDS
'What to read after Where the Crawdads Sing' AMAZON
'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'I loved this book' LEE CHILD
'Gorgeously written eerie suspense' KARIN SLAUGHTER
You'd recognise my mother's name if I told it to you. You'd wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn't she have a daughter while she was missing?
And whatever happened to the little girl?
Helena's home is now like anyone else's, with a husband and two daughters and a job she enjoys. But no one knows the truth about her childhood.
Brought up in a cabin in the wilderness until she was twelve, Helena's father kept her and her mother isolated and unable to leave their marshland home, until the fateful day Helena escaped and her father faced justice.
Now years later and with news that he has escaped from prison, Helena instinctively knows that her father is coming for her and if she is to keep her family safe, she must once again return to the marsh, to confront him in the wilderness and become the Marsh King's daughter once again.
An unforgettable and emotional read-in-one-sitting story packed with gripping suspense.
__________
'Kya, the main character in Crawdads, is known as the "Marsh Girl." The Marsh King's Daughter shares the marsh moniker, along with the mystery and thriller elements of Crawdads... if you're looking for another strong female character and a book where the characters are of their environment, this book might do the trick' AMAZON
'Unlike anything else I've read. Haunting and unputdownable' LAURA MARSHALL
'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'You won't be able to stop turning the pages' MEGAN ABBOTT
'A wonderful book... Mesmerising' ALEX MARWOOD
'A nail-biter' COSMOPOLITAN
'A knockout' SARAH HILARY
'I was absolutely gripped' GILLY MACMILLAN
'Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying' TÉA OBREHT
'Original and exciting, with a thrilling ending' MARK EDWARDS
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Best book I've read in a long Time, could not put it down! Five outta five ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
About the author
Karen Dionne drew heavily on her experiences during the 1970s in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to write Home (previously published as The Marsh King's Daughter), when she and her husband lived in a tent with their six-week-old daughter while they built a tiny cabin. Karen carried water from a stream, made wild apple jelly over a campfire (and defended it against marauding raccoons), sampled wild foods such as cattail heads and milkweed pods, and washed nappies in a bucket (which Karen says is every bit as nasty as it sounds). She enjoys nature photography and lives with her husband in Detroit's northern suburbs.
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