Book description
When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last
resort, she doesn't expect that anything much will change. She doesn't
expect it to help with her chronic insomnia . . . She doesn't expect to
hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her:
'Kind, cruel, kind of cruel' - words she has seen somewhere before, if
only she could remember where . . . She doesn't expect to be arrested
two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words out loud, in
connection with the brutal murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she's
never heard of . . . 'One of the great unmissables of this genre -
intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully Gothic imagination.' Sophie
Hannah is a bestselling crime fiction writer and poet. Her psychological
thrillers
Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point of Rescue, The Other Half
Lives, A Room Swept White
and Lasting Damage
have received critical acclaim and have been translated into more than
twenty languages. Little Face
was longlisted for the 2007 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the
Year Award and the IMPAC Award. Hurting Distance
was longlisted for the 2008 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the
Year Award. The Other Half Lives
was shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award
and a Barry Award. The Point of Rescue
was adapted for television in 2011 as Case Sensitive
, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. Sophie's fifth collection of
poetry, Pessimism for Beginners
, was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Choice in 2007 and was
shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award, and in 2004 she won first prize in
the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her
psychological suspense story The Octopus Nest
. Sophie's poetry is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across
the UK. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at
Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a fellow
of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is currently a Fellow Commoner at Lucy
Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband
and two children.
