The farm
By: Tom Rob Smith
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9781847375704; 9781847375698; 9781471110672
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction
Description: "If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son ... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother ... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad ... I need the police ... Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents - whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden ..."--Flyleaf.
Table of contents: title: If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son ... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother ... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things; title: terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad ... I need the police ... Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents; title: whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden ...