Girl Unknown, Karen Perry
Girl Unknown, Karen Perry
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Girl Unknown
A Novel

Author: Karen Perry

Narrator: Conor Maloney, Richard Flood, Tracy Keating

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2018


Synopsis

Girl Unknown by critically acclaimed author Karen Perry is a powerful new audiobook that 'Explores emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy." — Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of Into the Woods

How quickly could the family we have created for ourselves unravel—and how far will we go to protect it?

David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage’s middle years—raising two children; overseeing care for David’s ailing mother; leaning into their careers, both at David’s university teaching job, where he’s up for an important promotion, and at the ad agency where Caroline has recently returned to work after years away while the children were little. The recent stresses of home renovation and of a brief romantic betrayal (Caroline’s) are behind them. The Connollys know and care for each other deeply.

Then one early fall afternoon, a student of sublime, waiflike beauty appears in David’s university office and says, “I think you might be my father.” And the fact of a youthful passion that David had tried to forget comes rushing back. In the person of this intriguing young woman, the Connollys may have a chance to expand who they are and how much they can love, or they may be making themselves vulnerable to menace. They face either an opportunity or a threat—but which is which? What happens when their hard-won family happiness meets a hard-luck beautiful girl?

About Karen Perry

Karen Perry is the pen name of Dublin-based authors Paul Perry and Karen Gillece. Together they wrote Girl Unknown.Paul Perry is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books. A recipient of the HennessyAward for New Irish Writing, he teaches creative writing at University College, Dublin. Karen Gillece is the author of several critically acclaimed novels. In 2009 she won the European Union Prize for Literature (Ireland).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on March 16, 2018

3.25 stars SLOW moving, tightly wound psychological thriller about a young woman who surprises her college professor by announcing she might be his daughter. David, a 41-year-old history professor in Dublin, is shocked to the core when his student, Zoe, shares news that she might be his daughter.......more

Goodreads review by Gary on November 20, 2016

I had never heard of these two authors writing under the pen name Karen Perry but was intrigued by the book description. This psychological thriller was a page turner and I picked it up at every opportunity to find out what was going to happen next. I am sure we will hear a lot more of this book in t......more

Goodreads review by Jess☺️ on February 22, 2019

Girl unknown by Karen Perry is the first book I've read by this author and Im looking forward to reading more It's a slow start but soon you find your stride then your flying through it. Each chapter is told by a different character so you get a different side and feeling for the story. There are a fe......more

Goodreads review by Ann Marie (Lit·Wit·Wine·Dine) on February 04, 2018

UPDATE: ****GIVEAWAY**** I'm running a GIVEAWAY for this book on INSTA. @litwitwinedine Open to U.S. and Canadian residents. Entries close 11:59pm EST 1/7/18. You can read this and all of my reviews at Lit·Wit·Wine·Dine. This book is unique in many ways. The first is that Karen Perry is actually a pen......more

Goodreads review by DJ on January 24, 2018

Favorite Quotes: There is an energy on campus during those first weeks of the new semester that is like nothing else. The air is charged with the frisson of possibility. A cheerful busyness takes hold, giving a new life and sheen to every faded surface, every jaded room… I felt it too— the beat of po......more


Quotes

“Check your passport and bolt the door . . . Girl Unknown gets its hooks in.”
Entertainment Weekly, "Winter's Chilliest New Thrillers"

“Emotional fireworks.”
The New York Times Book Review

“Full of intrigue and incident—keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page.”
—Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Unraveling Oliver and of Lying in Wait

“Compulsively readable, with surprises until the very last page. . . . A chilling tale about a family under threat from one of its own.”
—Jessica Treadway, author of Lacy Eye and How Will I Know You?

"[Girl Unknown] is must-read literary suspense, with dueling character perspectives and sly twists forming a gut-wrenching exploration of trust, manipulation, and obsession.”
Booklist (starred review)

"A convincing glimpse into the fragility of family life and the terrible burden that the past can put on domestic life."
Kirkus Reviews

“Builds to an incredibly tense finale—before delivering an amazing final twist. Riveting stuff.”
Sunday Mirror

“Richly satisfying . . . a book that hooks the reader from the first page. The tension is relentlessly dialed up to an almost unbearable level as the story unfolds.”
The Irish Independent