Women's Fiction
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Gone Tonight: A Novel
New from the #1 bestselling co-author of The Golden Couple and The Wife Between Us!
"I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet." ―Colleen Hoover
Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening.
Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's past or background. But when Ruth's desperate quest to keep her daughter by her side begins to reveal cracks in Ruth's carefully-constructed world, both mother and daughter begin a dance of deception.
"I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet." ―Colleen Hoover
Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening.
Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's past or background. But when Ruth's desperate quest to keep her daughter by her side begins to reveal cracks in Ruth's carefully-constructed world, both mother and daughter begin a dance of deception.
Editorial Reviews
"Sarah Pekkanen's startling, breathtaking tale of a mother and daughter will plunge you into a plot layered by lies and trauma but still infused with love. Through deft writing and thoughtful character development, she's created a fast-paced thriller in Gone Tonight, daring to ask deep questions about love versus fear, and control versus protection." --Readers Digest
"This riveting, original, and powerful mother-daughter story kept me glued to the pages. I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet." --Colleen Hoover
"Filled with buried secrets and jaw-dropping deception, Sarah Pekkanen's GONE TONIGHT is a page-turning thriller about a mother-daughter you won't soon forget.. What would make a teenage girl vanish into the night and live a life on the run for two decades? Read Gone Tonight. It's a wild ride." -- Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
"Gone Tonight is an intense, harrowing story about long-buried secrets and the trauma they inflict. The mother-daughter relationship is both thrilling and heartbreaking, with characters you won't soon forget. Captivating from beginning to end." – Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife.
"With prose that cuts like knife―full of both emotion and twists―GONE TONIGHT proves why Sarah Pekkanen is one of the finest thriller writers working today. Just when you think Pekkanen couldn't possibly outdo herself, she delivers with what will undoubtedly be crowned one of the year's best novels. Fresh, inventive, and with a gut-punch you won't see coming, GONE TONIGHT is this decade's Gone Girl. Believe the hype."-- Alex Finlay, author of The Night Shift
"Catherine Sterling's personal and professional worlds are beginning to collide: she's a nurse who cares for patients with Alzheimer's disease, and her mother is starting to show classic symptoms. The two live together, making the forgetfulness hard to miss, with Ruth Sterling looking very confused when recent events are discussed and forgetting words―calling ice cubes "water squares," for example. Ruth is reluctant to get any scans that could confirm the likely diagnosis―her mother died of Alzheimer's, she says, and she knows what's ahead. But the...
"This riveting, original, and powerful mother-daughter story kept me glued to the pages. I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet." --Colleen Hoover
"Filled with buried secrets and jaw-dropping deception, Sarah Pekkanen's GONE TONIGHT is a page-turning thriller about a mother-daughter you won't soon forget.. What would make a teenage girl vanish into the night and live a life on the run for two decades? Read Gone Tonight. It's a wild ride." -- Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
"Gone Tonight is an intense, harrowing story about long-buried secrets and the trauma they inflict. The mother-daughter relationship is both thrilling and heartbreaking, with characters you won't soon forget. Captivating from beginning to end." – Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife.
"With prose that cuts like knife―full of both emotion and twists―GONE TONIGHT proves why Sarah Pekkanen is one of the finest thriller writers working today. Just when you think Pekkanen couldn't possibly outdo herself, she delivers with what will undoubtedly be crowned one of the year's best novels. Fresh, inventive, and with a gut-punch you won't see coming, GONE TONIGHT is this decade's Gone Girl. Believe the hype."-- Alex Finlay, author of The Night Shift
"Catherine Sterling's personal and professional worlds are beginning to collide: she's a nurse who cares for patients with Alzheimer's disease, and her mother is starting to show classic symptoms. The two live together, making the forgetfulness hard to miss, with Ruth Sterling looking very confused when recent events are discussed and forgetting words―calling ice cubes "water squares," for example. Ruth is reluctant to get any scans that could confirm the likely diagnosis―her mother died of Alzheimer's, she says, and she knows what's ahead. But the...
Readers Top Reviews
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[ALC Audiobook Review] Story: Four out of Five Stars Performance: Four out of Five Stars This is a story of a mother doing anything she can to protect her daughter. Imagine you find out your forty something year old mother has been having symptoms of early onset alzheimers, but wants nothing to do with having more tests done or seek treatment. As you try to plan for the all the life changes this new diagnosis will bring, recent actions and lies your mother told come to fruition and begin to muddle the trust you have in her. Then you come to the realization that you know nothing about your mother's past, where she comes from or if she has even given you her real birthdate. What would you do? This is exactly what Katherine Sterling is going through and she is determined to discover her mother's secrets. This psychological thriller is told in three Acts through dual points of view: Ruth Sterling the mother, and Katherine her daughter with chapters of Ruth retelling her past as she writes in a journal that Katherine will eventually read- though we don't know when. If you are familiar with actress Kate Mara, then you will enjoy her narration of this book. Kate Mara did a good job portraying the ranges of emotions both MFC went through. Even though the narrator does not change inflection to differentiate the two main characters, it didn't disrupt my following of the story. The story has a slow pace yet I didn't get frustrated because each chapter unwraps more layers of the story. At the beginning of act three I did however begin to question how the story could go from there. I wondered how the author would incorporate a twist or turn so as to not end the book suddenly, but I didn't dwell on that questioning for too long because there definitely was more. Throughout the book the author sprinkled tidbits of clues, but they never once had me veering away from of what the author wanted the reader to believe. I really enjoyed this Audiobook. I didn't expect the twist, and if she really wanted to Sarah Pekkanen could probably continue their story in another book. If you are a fan of Frieda McFadden or Liv Constantine then you will enjoy this audiobook. Please note: the story involves sexual assault of a minor, physical abuse of minors, talks of alcohol abuse, murder and mental health issues. Thank you Netgalley and MacMillan audio for the free audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving this honest review.
