Girl Unknown

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Families don't just come apart because a thread has loosened. The break when it comes is sharp, brutal. It takes ripping and hacking to sever those ties.' When first-year student Zoe Barry walks into university professor David Connolly's office and announces that she is his daughter, he is left reeling. Suddenly his family - imperfect, flawed, but working - is trying to find space for someone new. As Zoe becomes ever more entangled in their lives the whole family struggles to make sense of her, unclear whether she is a sister, a daughter, a friend, an enemy. Her stories don't quite add up and David's wife becomes determined to discover who this girl really is; an unfortunate innocent or a cuckoo in her nest? But no one could have expected where it all might end. Because they have let into their home a girl that they do not know. And now everything they have built has begun to violently, determinedly, break apart.Families don't just come apart because a thread has loosened. The break when it comes is sharp, brutal. It takes ripping and hacking to sever those ties.' When first-year student Zoe Barry walks into university professor David Connolly's office and announces that she is his daughter, he is left reeling. Suddenly his family - imperfect, flawed, but working - is trying to find space for someone new. As Zoe becomes ever more entangled in their lives the whole family struggles to make sense of her, unclear whether she is a sister, a daughter, a friend, an enemy. Her stories don't quite add up and David's wife becomes determined to discover who this girl really is; an unfortunate innocent or a cuckoo in her nest? But no one could have expected where it all might end. Because they have let into their home a girl that they do not know. And now everything they have built has begun to violently, determinedly, break apart.
Karen Perry is the pen name of crime writing duo Paul Perry and Karen Gillece who both live in Ireland. Their latest novel, Girl Unknown, is published this year and follows Only We Know and the Sunday Times bestselling The Boy That Never Was which was selected for the Simon Mayo Radio 2 book club.