'I was born two years into my mother's captivity. She was three weeks shy of seventeen. If I had known then what I do now, things would have been a lot different. I wouldn't have adored my father.' When notorious child abductor - known as The Marsh King - escapes from a maximum security prison, Helena immediately suspects that she and her two young daughters are in danger.
No one, not even her husband, knows the truth about Helena's past: they don't know that she was born into captivity, that she had no contact with the outside world before the age of twelve - or that her father raised her to be a killer. And they don't know that The Marsh King can survive and hunt in the wilderness better than anyone...except, perhaps his own daughter. Packed with gripping suspense and powerful storytelling, The Marsh King's Daughter is a one-more-page, read-in-one-sitting thriller that you'll remember for ever.
This is a pretty dark premise for a book. The main character, Helena, is born in captivity, and is the daughter of a notorious kidnapper called the Marsh King. Her mother is the Marsh King’s other hostage. She’s raised not knowing her life is unusual or different, as she’s taught to hide, hunt and survive in the wilderness. Over two decades later, she’s living with her own children, back in civilisation, trying to put her past behind her, when her father escapes from a maximum security prison. She knows she won’t feel safe until her father is captured again – and she knows that she’s only one with the knowledge and skills to track him down and put a stop to him. It’s a cat-and-mouse thriller, where Helena is both prey and predator.I can’t describe any better than one of the critics – “It’s Room meets The Revenant”
