AUDIOBOOK
Duration
10h 48m
Year
2021
Language
English

About

There is nothing as powerful as a mother's love. But will Ellen's put her whole family in danger?

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Other Passenger and Our House – now a major ITV series – comes a nail-biting story about a mother's obsession with revenge.

'I didn't read The Heights, I inhaled it' LISA JEWELL

Ellen Saint is just your average mum. Devoted to her family, she's no different from any other mother who wants the best for her kids. But when her teenage son Lucas brings a new friend home, cracks start to appear in Ellen's perfect family life.

Kieran Watts isn't like Lucas. He's rude, obnoxious and reckless, and Ellen can only watch in despair as her son falls deeper under his influence.

Then Ellen's whole world implodes and she embarks on an obsessive need to get revenge.



There is nothing you won't do for your children – even murder . . .

'Compelling, unexpected and beautifully written' JANE FALLON

'Tense, provocative and devastatingly powerful' TM LOGAN

'There's nothing quite so chilling as the roar of mother tiger love. Louise Candlish had my heart in my throat. Dizzily dark. Dangerous. Deadly' JANE CORRY

'The Heights has everything you could possibly wish for – tragedy, obsession, revenge and, yes, love. Another finely-crafted masterpiece from Louise Candlish' BA PARIS

Louise Candlish is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen previous novels, including the #1 bestseller Our House, winner of the British Book Awards 2019 Crime & Thriller Book of the Year and now a major four-part ITV drama starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton. The Other Passenger was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2021. Several of her titles are now in development for the screen. Louise lives in south London with her husband, teenage daughter and fox-red Labrador, Bertie. Connect with her on Twitter @Louise_Candlish, Facebook.com/LouiseCandlishAuthor or Instagram.com/louisecandlish.



Louise Candlish is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen previous novels, including the #1 bestseller Our House, winner of the British Book Awards 2019 Crime & Thriller Book of the Year and now a major four-part ITV drama starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton. The Other Passenger was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2021. Several of her titles are now in development for the screen. Louise lives in south London with her husband, teenage daughter and fox-red Labrador, Bertie. Connect with her on Twitter @Louise_Candlish, Facebook.com/LouiseCandlishAuthor or Instagram.com/louisecandlish. 'It twists and it turns and it twists again. The Heights by Louise Candlish is the very definition of a "just one more chapter" novel. I devoured it. And it's full of such great writing about the ferocity of maternal love'

'Impossible to resist, impossible to predict, impossible to put down… this is an author at the top of her game'

'There's nothing quite so chilling as the roar of mother tiger love. Louise Candlish had my heart in my throat. Dizzily dark. Dangerous. Deadly' 'No one creates middle-class characters we love to hate quite like Louise Candlish. I'd expected her to do this, and to provide a great sense of place, and twists that would have been rifling through the book to see how they'd been done. What I wasn't expecting was that this thriller of obsessive revenge and intense parental grief would tug at my heartstrings. Smart, addictive, twisting, surprising. Highly recommended'

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