“Heavy with atmosphere and rich in detail” (Publishers Weekly), The Drowning Girl is a confronting and compelling novel.
Grace, a young single mother, is drowning. Her little girl Sylvie is distant, troubled and prone to violent tantrums that the psychiatrists blame on her. But Grace knows there’s something more to what’s happening to Sylvie. There has to be …
The Drowning Girl asks the question that every parent dreads: what if there was something wrong with your child – and nobody believed you? This is a story of such depth that it was selected for the Oprah Book Club’s 2009 Summer Reading List. According to O Magazine, it is “one of those rare books you’ll sit with till your bones ache".