Author: michellesacks
From “a master of slow-burn suspense” (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South — but what they’re leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead. When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and effervescent. It has been a while since her dad has … that is both precocious and effervescent. It has been a while since her dad has spent time with her, just the two of them, and so when he scoops her up…
A gripping page-turner for fans of The Woman in the Window and The Perfect Nanny, Michelle Sacks’s You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darkest sides of marriage, motherhood, and friendship. Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place. Merry adores the domestic life: baking, gardening, caring for her infant son. … baking, gardening, caring for her infant son. Sam, formerly an academic, is pursuing a new career as a filmmaker. Sometimes they can hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they’ve built. When Merry’s childhood…