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Little Darlings: A Novel Audiobook
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“Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother.
Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own … creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.
A month passes. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. But when they’re found, something is different about them. The infants look like Morgan and Riley—to everyone else—but to Lauren, something is off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, “These are not my babies!”
Determined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she saw, she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.
Compulsive, creepy, and inspired by some our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking—and rechecking—your own little ones. Just to be sure. Just to be safe.
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“[Golding] skillfully maintains suspense concerning just how much of Lauren’s nightmare might be rooted in the darker recesses of her own mind.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Unforgettable."
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“Atmospheric and very creepy indeed.”
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“Lyrical and atmospheric.”
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“It’ll make you question whether mother really does know best or if motherhood is truly the dream it’s made out to be.”
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“A gorgeous, creepy, modern fairy tale.”
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“A modern story of ghosts and fairy tales…exploring the harsh reality of twenty-first century motherhood.”
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“Dark, compelling, and terrifyingly relatable…Takes every parent’s worst fear and deftly twists it into something even more horrific.”
— Megan Hart, New York Times bestselling author
Awards
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An April 2019 LibraryReads Pick
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A Booklist Pick of Top 10 Books of Women's Fiction
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Finalist for the Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel
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Finalist for the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Debut
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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A London Guardian Pick of Best Recent Crime Thrillers
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A Refinery29 Pick of Best Summer Thrillers
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A Bustle Pick of Horror Retellings of Favorite Classic Stories
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month
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About Melanie Golding
Melanie Golding is a graduate, with distinction, of Bath Spa University’s postgraduate creative writing program. She has been a farm hand, a factory worker, a child-minder, and a music teacher. Throughout all this—because and in spite of it—there was always the writing. In recent years she has won and been short-listed in several local and national story competitions. Little Darlings is her first novel.