Different, provocative and a very special read indeed, The Poison Garden has taken root in my thoughts and will stay with me for some time. Romy grew up in a cult in Wales, having lost all the people who meant so much to her, she now has to learn to survive. Alex Marwood is an award winning author and former journalist, and she succeeded in bringing an almost unimaginable scenario to vivid, incredibly intense life. Romy is one of the most intruiging characters I’ve met, and I say met, as I feel as though I know her intimately. As I read, Romy became me, or I became her, she touched my heart, and still sits in my thoughts. The Poison Garden is completely fascinating, the more I read, the more involved and consumed I became. I read this fabulous novel in one sitting with my senses on full alert, once finished I sat in a booky stupor. Highly recommended and chosen as one of our LoveReading Star Books, and a book of the month, this is a book that we really want to shout about.
'I devoured The Poison Garden . . . Gripping and utterly convincing, it's Alex Marwood at the top of her (already impressive) game' JOJO MOYES _________ Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again.
Now twenty-two, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone - and if she is to keep herself safe in this new world, she has some important lessons to learn.
Like how there are some people you can trust, and some you must fear. And about who her family really is, and why her mother ran away from them all those years ago.
And that you can't walk away from a dark past without expecting it to catch up with you...
Shocking, tense and sharply written, The Poison Garden is the gripping new novel from the international bestseller and Edgar award-winning Alex Marwood.
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Readers love The Poison Garden:
'Terrifying and unsettling, as if a harbinger for our times . . . Thrilling' LISA BALLANTYNE
'This superbly eerie psychological thriller confirms Alex Marwood's reputation as the Queen of Unease' FRANCIS WHEEN, author of Strange Days Indeed
'Absolutely chilling . . . Another brilliant, shockingly dark book from a master storyteller' SAM BLAKE
'I really loved Alex Marwood's dark, tense (and disturbingly real) The Poison Garden . . . you want this for your summer reading' STELLA DUFFY
'A dark and disturbing look at life inside a cult . . . I was transfixed' NetGalley reviewer
'A story that will chill you to the bone . . . This is a must-read' NetGalley reviewer
'Compulsive reading, this is an addictive suspenseful psychological thriller like no other' NetGalley reviewer
'I was hooked from the first page and found it very hard to put down' NetGalley reviewer
'For me, this was the perfect book. Intricate and captivating' NetGalley reviewer
'This is my most eagerly anticipated novel of the year and wow! It's even better than I expected' NetGalley reviewer
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