THE PERFECT MOTHER

Catriona has the life she's always dreamed of: a loving husband, a delightful step-daughter and her own precious little girl, Daisy. When Daisy begins to feel poorly, Catriona seeks help and, in doing so, is forced to look to the past and her own dark and fractured childhood.
When Cat is accused of an unspeakable crime, she begins to realize that the life she has now is more fragile than she could ever have imagined.

"Written with a wonderfully convincing authority Leroy succeeded in making me care about the characters I dreaded the worst and hoped for the best and I won't tell you which takes place." Margot Livesey, New York Times "A harrowing novel about a modern mother whose love for her daughter is turned against her in a nightmarish turn of events The novel reads like a thriller and is brilliant at portraying the slow, steady disintegration of a seemingly ordinary life when secrets are unearthed and dark suspicions spread." Baltimore Sun "Written with the intense pace of a thriller and the brooding concealment of a mystery novel, this is ultimately the story of a mother's over-intense love for her child." Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Margaret Leroy writes like a dream. POSTCARDS FROM BERLIN is both a thriller and a love story, one that is all the more moving because it is about the love between a mother and her child. Gripping, disturbing, and moving, this book goes straight to the heart." Tony Parsons, author of MAN AND BOY "What a storyteller Leroy is, and what an eye she has for contemporary life, not just the horror of it, but the beauty as well." Fay Weldon "Margaret Leroy writes with candor and intelligence, capturing the menace of suddenly finding that the world may not be at all as you've thought it." Helen Dunmore Margaret Leroy studied music at Oxford and has been a music therapist, play leader, shop assistant, and social worker. For fifteen years she has worked as a social worker and counselor, specializing in marital therapy and child protection. Her books have been published in nine languages, and her first novel TRUST has been translated into five languages and was broadcast in February 2003 as a Granada TV drama.