Girl Unknown
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  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405920315
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Girl Unknown

The unputdownable SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER with a heart stopping twist . . .

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1 Dec 2016
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16 Jun 2016
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1 Dec 2016
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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 Zoe Barry walks into 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.


But Zoe's stories don't quite add up and lies become indistinguishable from truths. The family struggle to make sense of whether she is a sister, a daughter, a friend, an enemy. 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.
  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405920315
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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Praise for Girl Unknown

Praise for Girl Unknown

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Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page

Irish Independent

Praise for Karen Perry

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Stunning

Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club

I shot through this in one sitting. Like Gone Girl . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages

Evening Standard

Beautifully written, tense and twisty tale

Sunday Mirror

Beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations

Best Crime Fiction of 2015, Telegraph

This is an intense and subtle story with some wonderfully poetic passages and a character driven plot which becomes more compelling as the sense of momentum gathers and the true version of events is slowly revealed. Gripping stuff

Sunday Mirror

This story of psychological attrition builds to an incredibly tense finale - before delivering an amazing final twist. Riveting stuff

Sunday Mirror

Taunt, tense psycho-gripper

Sunday Sport

Full of intrigue and incident and keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page

Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Lying in Wait

A profoundly disturbing, beautifully written story . . . An unputdownable novel that deftly examines the cost of misguided compassion, leading to a stunning conclusion you won't see coming. Karen Perry delivers again

Michelle Richmond, bestselling author of The Marriage Pact

Karen Perry writes intense psychological thrillers that explore emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy, and this may be their best yet

Tana French, Irish Independent, Books of the Year

Loved it

Lucy Mangan

A twist-filled page-turner

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