Mother’s entire bizarre story will likely be disappointed with the anticlimacticĮnding. Juggles the son’s unwavering love and impatient frustration. Trust his father’s judgment that she’s lost her grip on reality. As the son, Langton hones in on his character’s internalĬonflict: Should he believe his pleading mother with her satchel of ‘evidence’ or Paranoia is so convincing that listeners will likely want to institutionalize Landed her in a psychiatric hospital, Toren’s delivery of her desperation and Meet me at Heathrow.”Ĭaught between his parents and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother’s unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, lies, a horrible crime, and a conspiracy that implicates his own father. Everything that man has told you is a lie.
Before he can board the plane, his father contacts him with even more frightening news: his mother has discharged herself from hospital, and he doesn’t know where she is. She has had a psychotic breakdown and been committed to a mental hospital.ĭaniel prepares to rush to Sweden on the first available flight. She’s been imagining things-terrible, terrible things.
Your mother’s not well, his father tells him. They had sold their home and business in London and bid farewell to England, setting off to begin life anew on a remote, bucolic farm in rural Sweden.īut with that phone call, everything changes.
Until the moment he receives a frantic call from his father, Daniel believed his parents were headed into a peaceful, well-deserved retirement. From Tom Rob Smith-author of the phenomenal Child 44 trilogy-comes one of the most anticipated novels of 2014…
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