num_pages: 352
description: A Book of The Month Club pick In this beautiful dive into the world of J. M. Barries classic one woman must take on the infamous Peter Panwho is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to beto save her daughters life. . . .Life is looking up for Holly Darling granddaughter of Wendyyes that Wendy. That is until she gets a call that her daughter Eden who has been in a coma for nearly a decade has gone missing from the estate where shes been long tucked away. And worst of all Holly knows who must be Peter Pan who is not only very real but very dangerous. Holly is desperate to find Eden and protect her son Jack from a terrible web of family secrets before she loses both her children. And yet she has no one to turn toher mother Jane is the only other person in the world who knows that Peter is more than a story but she refuses to accept that he is not the hero shes always imagined. Darling Girl brings all the magic of the classic Peter Pan story to the present while also exploring the dark underpinnings of fairy tales grief aging sacrifice motherhood and just how far we will go to protect those we love.
language: English
title: Darling Girl
publisher: Dutton