Product Description
A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor's Wife Like
The Doctor's Wife -- which
The Boston Globe called "a compelling read"--
Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light. Willa Golding, a student, has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he abandoned, and so he gains a teaching position at the school. A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye, and the headmaster's wife is busy keeping her husband's current indiscretions well hidden. Building to a breathtaking collision between two fathers--biological and adoptive, past and present--
Somebody Else's Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil.
About the Author
Elizabeth Brundage is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned an MFA in fiction and a James Michener award. Her short fiction has been published in the
Greensboro Review,
Witness Magazine, and
New Letters, and she contributed to the anthology
Thicker Than Blood: I've Always Meant to Tell You, Letters to Our Mothers.