Cause For Concern by Margaret Yorke - ISBN: 9780751552119
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A mother’s secret, a son’s abuse: what horror binds them?

Cause For Concern

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    336 pages

  • Release Date

    28 January 2014

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Summary

What secret could be so terrible that a mother would endure years of abuse to keep it concealed?

Susan Trent is in her sixties, living in a house she loves, in a prosperous village. She has a nice job in the local estate agents which keeps her active, and she very much enjoys her garden: she ought to be well-satisfied with her lot. Instead she lives in constant terror of her semi-employed, abusive, middle-aged son. Her friends suspects that the cuts and bruises she explains away as he…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780751552119
ISBN-10:0751552119
Author:Margaret Yorke
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Sphere
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:28 January 2014
Weight:238g
Dimensions:201mm x 162mm x 22mm
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Critics Review

Margaret Yorke knows all about human weaknesses and follies, vanities and ambitions, as well as about that rarer phenomenon, real, unadulterated evil - Susan Hill

The mistress of the skilfully-spun suspense novel … her quiet, unemphatic style of narrative makes the story a compelling read - Sunday Telegraph

Her short, sparse accounts of things going wrong and innocent people getting caught up in events beyond their control never fails to induce a powerful sense of apprehension and foreboding - Guardian

About The Author

Margaret Yorke

Margaret Yorke was awarded the 1999 Cartier Diamond Dagger for her outstanding contribution to the crime fiction genre. She was a past chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association and the author of over 50 novels. She died in November 2012.

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