Secret Daughter
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Publishing:3rd Dec '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A seductive, sharp and thrilling excavation of a family, for fans of Isabel Waidner and Claire-Louise Bennett
The secret is revealed to her unceremoniously: Manolo is not her real father. She doesn't want to meet Sebastian, to know if he might have been kinder than the charismatic, dangerous man she was sent away from as a child. And why would she - her uncle Ed, has doted on her as if she were his own. Her new life in the Midwest, confusingly predictable and suburban, is worlds away from the chaos she left behind in Mexico City. Years later, she attempts to understand the splinters her fractured childhood has left in her. What did she gain from her three fathers? What did she lose?
A riveting novel about secrets and whispers, lies and half-truths. Our heroine has three fathers and yet no father at all; she comes from a large family but lives in strange solitude; she is a citizen of two countries yet is caught between both. More than anything else, though Secret Daughter is a story beautifully told, a young girl's journey towards freedom and self-knowledge, a writer's quest for self-completion -- Colm Tóibín
Praise for Veronica Gonzalez Peña * : *
Honest and riveting -- Lynne Tillman
Like being in an aquarium looking out ... I love the fabric of this book -- Eileen Myles
ISBN: 9781806492268
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
304 pages
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