The Trophy Child: A Novel

A police detective becomes entangled with a controlling mother, a missing daughter, and a dangerous web of dysfunction in this "terrific page-turner" (The Guardian).

Karen Bloom is not the coddling type. This tiger mom is raising her ten-year-old daughter for success—at school, at music lessons, at dance classes, at everything. Meanwhile, in their idyllic suburb in England's Lake District, Karen's husband frequently heads for the pub; her teenage stepdaughter grows more and more troubled;...