Ten years ago, on the fictional island of Inisrun, a young woman was murdered but nobody was ever charged with the crime. Tautly plotted and impeccably paced, it’s an intelligent and propulsive second novel. When a close friend of her niece, a student at the University of Cambridge, is murdered, Mariana becomes embroiled in the mysterious activities of a group of elusive students known as the Maidens and their enigmatic professor, Edward Fosca. London-based psychotherapist Mariana Andros is trying to come to terms with the death of her beloved husband. The Maidensįollowing on from his global bestselling debut, The Silent Patient, Michaelides returns with a psychological thriller steeped in Greek mythology. Unafraid to depict the exhausting reality of caring, her timely story is compassionate and humane, judiciously blending the personal with the political as she eloquently argues, “care is a feminist issue”. Over the past two decades, the bestselling author has been a carer three times: to her father suffering from Parkinson’s, to her widowed mother and presently to her mother-in-law, the exuberant Granny Rosie.
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