Deceptions

HOW WELL CAN A MOTHER EVER REALLY KNOW HER CHILD? Julian and Annie have only just announced their forthcoming marriage when Annies twelve-year-old son, Dan, fails to come home from school. Despite an extensive police investigation, the days turn into weeks and it is as if Dan has vanished into thin air. Over the next three years Annie refuses to give up hope that somewhere her son is alive and will one day return home. Julian, meanwhile, cant help but yearn for Annie to put the past behind her and move on. Then, out of the blue, a call brings shocking news of Dans fate. And far from being over, it seems the mystery of his disappearance is only just beginning. In spare, searing prose, Deceptions addresses our simultaneous need forand wariness ofhuman connection and the extremes that we are driven to by these competing impulses. Marking British literary star Rebecca Frayns arrival in the United States, this is fiction at its riveting best.