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by Elizabeth Brundage

A psychological thriller of secrets, dark motives, and an adoption buried in the past
At the center of Elizabeth Brundageas new novel lies an adoption under stressed and tragic circumstances. Willa, brought up in elegant prosperity, is now a student at the prestigious Pioneer School. But her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, canat live with himself without seeing her again.
In this idyllic Berkshires landscape, Willaas adoptive parents have fled a mysterious past; a feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair; teenagers live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye; and the headmasteras wife is busy keeping her husbandas disastrous history and current indiscretions well hidden. The culmination of these forces is the collision of two very different fathersabiological and adoptiveaand a villain whose ends and means slowly unfold with the help, witting and unwitting, of all around him. 'Somebody Elseas Daughter' delivers an electric, suspenseful tale of richly conflicted characters and the disturbed landscape of the American psyche.

Genre: Psychological