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"Tense, addictive and powered by an unforgettable narrative voice." - PAULA HAWKINS "A stunning debut...Suspenseful? You bet. Heart-rending? From beginning to end."--The Washington Post "Gripping...The voices of Chrissie and Julia reside deep in your skull: visceral and wicked, sad and wonderful, all at the same time." --The New York Times "Fans of Lisa Jewell and smart psychological suspense will eagerly await Tucker's next." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review "So that was all it took," I thought. "That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all." Meet Chrissie... Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked indoors. But Chrissie rules the roost -- she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a feeling of power that she never gets at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty years later, adult Chrissie is living in hiding under a changed name. A single mother, all she wants is for her daughter to have the childhood she herself was denied. That's why the threatening phone calls are so terrifying. People are looking for them, the past is catching up, and Chrissie fears losing the only thing in this world she cares about, her child. Nancy Tucker leaves the reader breathless as she inhabits her protagonist with a shocking authenticity that moves the reader from sympathy to humor to horror to heartbreak and back again.

"Tense, addictive and powered by an unforgettable narrative voice." - PAULA HAWKINS "So that was all it took," I thought. "That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all." Meet Chrissie... Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked indoors. But Chrissie rules the roost -- she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a feeling of power that she never gets at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty years later, adult Chrissie is living in hiding under a changed name. A single mother, all she wants is for her daughter to have the childhood she herself was denied. That's why the threatening phone calls are so terrifying. People are looking for them, the past is catching up, and Chrissie fears losing the only thing in this world she cares about, her child. Nancy Tucker leaves the reader breathless as she inhabits her protagonist with a shocking authenticity that moves the reader from sympathy to humor to horror to heartbreak and back again.

The gripping and dark book club debut with a compelling voice at its centre.*THE GUARDIAN 2021 BEST CRIME AND THRILLER PICK*'Gorgeously written' PANDORA SYKES'I loved this book' CLARE MACKINTOSH'A darkly dazzling debut . . . gripping' LISA JEWELL'Sharp-edged and highly discussable' BOOKLIST___________'So that was all it took,' I thought. 'That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all.'Chrissie knows how to steal sweets from the shop without getting caught, the best hiding place for hide-and-seek, the perfect wall for handstands.Now she has a new secret. It gives her a fizzing, sherbet feeling in her belly. She doesn't get to feel power like this at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer.Fifteen years later, Julia is trying to mother her five-year-old daughter, Molly. She is always worried - about affording food and school shoes, about what the other mothers think of her. Most of all she worries that the social services are about to take Molly away.That's when the phone calls begin, which Julia is too afraid to answer, because it's clear the caller knows the truth about what happened all those years ago.And it's time to face the truth: is forgiveness and redemption ever possible for someone who has killed?______________'Perceptive and compassionate' GUARDIAN'A stunning debut' WASHINGTON POST'Compulsively readable' ASHLEY AUDRAIN'Compelling . . . stunningly powerful' GRAZIA'An unforgettable narrative voice' PAULA HAWKINS'An extraordinary and heart-rending novel' OBSERVER'This is outstanding . . . so powerful' TRACY FENTON'A gripping, unsettling debut novel' ABIGAIL DEAN______________Readers love The First Day of Spring . . .*****'A powerful, distressing, haunting, but ultimately brilliant read'*****'Such a heartbreaking and powerful psychological drama that will stay with me for a long time'*****'An incredible book'*****'A thought provoking, dark and compulsive read... Highly recommend'*****'You DO NOT want to miss The First Day of Spring!'

When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn't know why, she wrote: 'I want to be thin.'Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was hospitalised, and finally swung the other way towards bulimia nervosa. She left school, rejoined school; went in and out of therapy; ebbed in and out of life. From the bleak reality of a body breaking down to the electric mental highs of starvation, hers has been a life held in thrall by food.Told with remarkable insight, dark humour and acute intelligence, The Time in Between is a profound, important window into the workings of an unquiet mind - a Wasted for the 21st century.

'This is mental illness. It is unexpected strength and unusual luck and an uninterrupted string of steps. Then the next wave comes. And while you wipe grit from your eyes and swipe blood from your knees, the smiling faces in the distance call out: Why do you keep falling over?! Just stand up!'Conversations about mental health are increasing, but we still seldom hear what it's really like to suffer from mental illness.Enter Nancy Tucker, author of the acclaimed eating disorder memoir, The Time In Between. Based on her interviews with young women aged 16-25, That Was When People Started to Worry weaves together experiences of mental illness into moving narratives, humorous anecdotes, and guidance as to how we can all be more empathetic towards those who suffer. Tucker offers an authentic impression of seven common mental illnesses: depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, self-harm, disordered eating, PTSD and borderline personality disorder. Giving a voice to those who often find it hard to speak themselves, Tucker presents a unique window into the day-to-day trials of living with an unwell mind. She pushes readers to reflect on how we think, talk about and treat mental illness in young women.

Samaja strashnaja tjurma - ta, chto vnutri tebja... Bespokojnoe, zasasyvajuschee povestvovanie, veduscheesja nezabyvaemym avtorskim golosom. - Pola Khokins, avtor superbestsellera "Devushka v poezde" Devochka-detoubijtsa... Kak takoe vozmozhno? Avtor, detskij psikhoterapevt, daet ischerpyvajuschij i probirajuschij do kostej otvet. Vy uvidite privychnyj mir pod drugim uglom, glazami rebenka, che soznanie sbito s puti, iskorezheno emotsionalnym i fizicheskim golodom. Vy oschutite ego tak, kak oschuschaet Krissi Benks. Ej vosem let, i ona luchshe vsekh v okruge stoit na rukakh, khodit po ogradam i kradet sladosti. A esche u nee est sekret. Tolko chto ona ubila malchika. Sosedskie materi perepugany do smerti, ikh uzhas peredalsja i detjam. A u Krissi v zhivote slovno burljat limonadnye puzyrki. Ona chuvstvuet sebja vsemoguschej. Ubiv, Krissi obrela silu, kotoroj nikogda ne daval ej rodnoj dom, gde edy pochti net, a ljubvi - esche menshe... Cherez mnogo let Krissi zhivet pod vymyshlennym imenem i rastit doch, starajas dat ej detstvo, kotorogo ne bylo u nee samoj. Panicheski boitsja, chto devochka stanet takoj zhe, kak ona, i delaet vse, chtoby etogo ne dopustit. I tut eti prokljatye telefonnye zvonki... Kto-to znaet, kem ona byla i chto sdelala. Prishlo vremja vzgljanut pravde v glaza: vozmozhno li proschenie i izbavlenie ot proshlogo dlja takoj ubijtsy, kak ona? Ikh golosa dolgo budut zvuchat pod svodami vashego cherepa - glubokie i budorazhaschie, pechalnye i prekrasnye. - The New York Times Izumitelnyj debjut. Zakhvatyvajuschij? I ne somnevajtes! Dusherazdirajuschij? Da, ot nachala i do kontsa! - The Washington Post Mrachnyj i golovokruzhitelnyj debjut, shokirujuschaja istorija o ravnodushii i zhestokosti, povedannaja tonko i sochuvstvenno. Naprjazhennaja, kak samyj zakruchennyj triller, trogatelnaja i chelovechnaja, kak samye sokrovennye vospominanija. - Lajza Dzhuell Pronzitelnaja i sostradatelnaja istorija opustoshenija dushi. - Guardian Zloveschij i ostryj roman o vine, otvetstvennosti i iskuplenii. - Kirkus Tonkaja, iskusno sdelannaja vesch. Taker vedet nas po zhiznennomu puti molodoj zhenschiny, s samogo detstva, polnogo lishenij, ischuschej ljubov sredi temnykh tajn, skryvajuschikhsja v zakoulkakh nashego suschestvovanija. - Oprah DailyPerevodchik: Smirnova M. V.