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  • Published: 5 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141901039
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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Monster Love




'I've kicked myself that I didn't do anything about it then. I've often thought, what if I had? Would she be alive now?' Charlotte, neighbour

'I wonder at how gullible I was...because when I asked them if I could see Samantha, just for the record, she said she was playing at the rec with her friends and I just went Oh, OK' Kaye, social worker

'You see it all the time in videos and that, but until you're in the room with them you don't really know what it means' Sharon, juror

No one in the neighbourhood has seen the Gutteridges' little girl Samantha for months. But Brendan and Sherilyn look happier that ever, so nothing is wrong. Is it?

For the Gutteridges, Samantha was just a thing that threatened to worm its way into their perfect love. For everyone else, her story is the stuff of tabloid headlines. But this time it's not in a newspaper, it's happening right next door...

  • Published: 5 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141901039
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
Categories:

About the author

Carol Topolski

Carol Topolski is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her many previous roles include working on the Woodstock festival, in advertising, and as a prison teacher, nursery school director, director of a rape crisis centre and refuge for battered women, probation officer and film censor. She lives in London and is married with two daughters and two grandchildren. Her first novel, Monster Love, is available in Penguin.

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Praise for Monster Love

Haunting...will have you hooked from the very beginning. If you liked We Need to Talk About Kevin you'll love this

Harper's Bazaar

A chilling love story with a twist as compelling as it is disturbing

Elle

Haunting...will have you hooked from the very beginning. If you liked We Need to Talk About Kevin you'll love this

Harper's Bazaar

Gripping, startling, striking, affecting

Independent on Sunday

A chilling, darkly compelling portrait of an unimaginable crime

Psychologies
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