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HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO BE THE PERFECT MOTHER?
A timeless story of mothers and daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist, this heart-wrenching debut for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jane Shemilt and The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas will make you question how you and your family spend time online
Isabel Murrow is precariously balancing her career and her family. Hard-working and caring, worried but supportive, all Isobel wants, in a perilous world of bullies and temptations, is to keep her daughter Phoebe safe.
Phoebe has just attempted suicide. She says it is Isabel's fault.
Saving Phoebe Murrow is a timely tale about an age-old problem - how best to raise our children, and how far to go in keeping them from harm. Set amidst the complicated web of relationships at the school gate, it tells a story of miscommunication and malice, drugs and Facebook, prejudice and revenge. Herta Feely is a writer and full-time editor, working with a wide array of authors and writers from around the world. Born in former Yugoslavia, she and her parents emigrated to Germany when she was three, and then to the United States at the age of seven. Her work (both short stories and memoir) have been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals, and she has received the American Independent Writers' award for best published personal essay. In her previous work, she was a journalist, press secretary and activist, co-founding Safe Kids Worldwide, an organization dedicated to saving children from unintentional injuries.
She now lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two cats, Monty and Albert. She has two sons, Jack and Max. A timeless story of mothers and daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist Based on a true story from the US, where teenager Megan Meier was driven to suicide after a very similar cyber attack Sensitive publicity to include reviews and topical features in women's magazines Innovative, cross-media marketing campaign on publication The author will be in the UK on publication It's a brave story, shocking in its honesty and naturally at times quite an uncomfortable book to read...harrowing yet also completely addictive reading.
A timeless story of mothers and daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist, this heart-wrenching debut for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jane Shemilt and The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas will make you question how you and your family spend time online
Isabel Murrow is precariously balancing her career and her family. Hard-working and caring, worried but supportive, all Isobel wants, in a perilous world of bullies and temptations, is to keep her daughter Phoebe safe.
Phoebe has just attempted suicide. She says it is Isabel's fault.
Saving Phoebe Murrow is a timely tale about an age-old problem - how best to raise our children, and how far to go in keeping them from harm. Set amidst the complicated web of relationships at the school gate, it tells a story of miscommunication and malice, drugs and Facebook, prejudice and revenge. Herta Feely is a writer and full-time editor, working with a wide array of authors and writers from around the world. Born in former Yugoslavia, she and her parents emigrated to Germany when she was three, and then to the United States at the age of seven. Her work (both short stories and memoir) have been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals, and she has received the American Independent Writers' award for best published personal essay. In her previous work, she was a journalist, press secretary and activist, co-founding Safe Kids Worldwide, an organization dedicated to saving children from unintentional injuries.
She now lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two cats, Monty and Albert. She has two sons, Jack and Max. A timeless story of mothers and daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist Based on a true story from the US, where teenager Megan Meier was driven to suicide after a very similar cyber attack Sensitive publicity to include reviews and topical features in women's magazines Innovative, cross-media marketing campaign on publication The author will be in the UK on publication It's a brave story, shocking in its honesty and naturally at times quite an uncomfortable book to read...harrowing yet also completely addictive reading.