Book description
Exquisitely nuanced and profoundly intimate, The Night Child is a story of resilience, hope, and the capacity of the mind, body, and spirit to save itself despite all odds.
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one…
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1 author picked The Night Child as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Very rarely, an author craft a gem of literary fiction that delves into the psychology of a character in a way that quietly terrifies me to my core, even though there’s no blood or gore at all. Such a novel is The Night Child.
The main character, Nora, is a high school English teacher who loves her adorable young daughter and cares deeply about her students but is not too happily married. I don’t want to give away anything more, because the settings, plot, and cast of characters are so effectively crafted and their reactions and interactions ring so true.…
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