Claire Douglas

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SISTERS - ONE OF THE BEST SELLING DEBUTS OF 2015 - COMES A TENSE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER RIPPED STRAIGHT FROM THE HEADLINES ...Twenty years ago 21-year-old Sophie Collier vanishes one night. She leaves nothing behind but a trainer on the old pier - and a hole in the heart of her best friend Francesca. Now A body's been found. And Francesca's drawn back to the seaside town she's tried to forget. Perhaps the truth of what happened to Sophie will finally come out. Yet Francesca is beginning to wish she hadn't returned. Everywhere she turns are ghosts from her past. The same old faces and familiar haunts of her youth. But if someone knows what really happened to Sophie that night then now's the time to find out - isn't it? Except sometimes discovering the truth can cost you everything you hold dear - your family, your sanity and even your life ...Praise for Local Girl Missing 'Compelling and page-turning, wonderfully written and impossible to second guess with a brilliant twist' Debbie Howells, bestselling author of Richard and Judy selection The Bones of You Praise for The Sisters 'Grippingly claustrophobic and unpredictable on every page: perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train' Marie Claire 'Tension oozes from every page . ..[an] addictive read that will leave you on the edge of your seat' Sun 'As soon as I finished the first page, I knew I wouldn't be able to put this down ...I thoroughly enjoyed it' Good Housekeeping 'Unforgettably dark and complex' Woman & Home

From the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Girls Who Disappeared One of them lied. One of them died. When one sister dies, the other must go to desperate lengths to survive … Haunted by her twin sister's death, Abi is making a fresh start in Bath. But when she meets siblings Bea and Ben, quickly moving into the townhouse they share with a a group of lodgers, strange things start to happen. Abi's precious letters go missing, threatening messages are left in her room … Is this the work of the beautiful and capricious Bea? Or is Abi hiding something of her own? Is it a dark secret – one she thought had died with her sister…?

The Old Woman's Daughter offers men and women alike a way to make sense of their lives and find more healing alternatives than offered by our present culture. In gentle, evocative imagery, Jungian analyst Claire Douglas invites readers to reconnect with the ancient tradition of the feminine, the ""Old Woman,"" symbolized by her own Celtic grandmother. After considering the dangers to individuals and the society of the masculine-focused dualities of our own culture, Douglas describes an alternative that incorporates the feminine self within each of us, man or woman. Douglas draws on myth and story, her own experiences, poetry, the dreams of some of her patients, and images available from Tibetan Buddhism to find archetypes that help us recognize our inheritance from the Old Woman. She describes a form of therapy that emphasizes ""cherishment,"" or bonding for the purpose of recovering our ties to the ancient feminine, and she deftly incorporates her search for her own voice in shaping the book into an organic whole. Rising from Douglas's lifelong interest in the psychology of the feminine, this book shows how healing is related naturally to a Motherline of attunement, connection, and cherishment.

Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century psychology and inspired its male creators, including C. G. Jung, who saw in her the quintessential "anima woman." Here Claire Douglas offers the first biography of this remarkable woman, exploring how Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not only Jung but also her own lover Henry A. Murray, a psychologist who with her help invented the thematic apperception test (TAT). Douglas recounts Morgan's own contributions to the study of emotions and feelings at the Harvard Psychological Clinic and vividly describes the analyst's turbulent life: her girlhood in a prominent Boston family; her difficult marriage; her intellectual awakening in postwar New York; her impassioned analysis with Jung, including her "visions" of a woman's heroic quest, many of which furthered his work on archetypes; her love affairs and experiences with sexual experimentation; her alcoholism; and, finally, her tragic death.

Lena overhører en samtale hun aldri skulle ha fått med seg. En setning. Et navn. En plan. Snart er hun overbevist: De nye naboene skjuler noe – noe farlig. Familien avfeier bekymringen, Morgan-paret virker jo så perfekte, så veltilpassede. Men Lena klarer ikke å slippe mistanken. For hver lille detalj hun oppdager, vokser frykten. Sin egen hemmelighet hun trodde var begravet, truer nå med å komme for dagen, en hemmelighet Morgan-paret på merkelig vis kjenner til. Snart er det ikke lenger Lena som følger med på naboene, men naboene som følger med på henne. I skyggen av et idyllisk nabolag lurer en trussel som kan koste alt hun holder kjært. Claire Douglas leverer en stilfull, nervepirrende og uforutsigbar thriller som fenger fra første til siste side.