num_pages: 352
description: An atmospheric and harrowing tale richly literary in complexity but ripe with all the crazed undertones confusions and forebodings inherent in the gothic genre. Recommend this riveting du Maurierlike novel to fans of Jennifer McMahon.  Booklist (starred review)From the author of the internationally bestselling The Lake of Dead Languages comes a gripping novel about madness motherhood love and trust.When Daphne Marist and her infant daughter Chloe pull up the gravel drive to the home of Daphnes new employer it feels like theyve entered a whole new world. Tucked in the Catskills the stone mansion looks like something out of a fairy tale its lush landscaping hiding the view of the mental asylum just beyond its border. Daphne secured the live-in position using an assumed name and fake credentials telling no one that shes on the run from a controlling husband who has threatened to take her daughter away.Daphnes new life is a far cry from the one she had in Westchester where just months before she and her husband welcomed little Chloe. From the start Daphne tries to be a good mother but shes plagued by dark moods and intrusive thoughts that convince her shes capable of harming her own daughter. When Daphne is diagnosed with Post Partum Mood Disorder her downward spiral feels unstoppableuntil she meets Laurel Hobbes.Laurel who also has a daughter named Chloe is everything Daphne isnt: charismatic sophisticated fearless. They immediately form an intense friendship revealing secrets to one another they thought theyd never share. Soon they start to look alike dress alike and talk alike their lives mirroring one another in strange and disturbing ways. But Daphne realizes only too late that being friends with Laurel will come at a very shocking priceone that will ultimately lead her to that towering mansion in the Catskills where terrifying long-hidden truths will finally be revealed....
language: None
title: The Other Mother
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks