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The Dare
The Dare
Oct 11, 2024 11:22 PM

Author:Rachael Treasure

The Dare

Dyed-in-the-wool country girl Kate Webster seems not to have a care in the world: playing hard, drinking even harder, she tells herself that she will worry about the consequences later. But there is one consequence she cannot escape: the result of a wild dare she undertook when she was nineteen, her little daughter, Nell.

Now she seems hell-bent on self-destruction: fighting with her father over the future of their farm after the death of her mother and his remarriage, refusing to reveal the identity of Nell's father, while remaining in love with him, and all too often neglecting Nell herself, while she parties the night away.

But destiny is about to take a hand and stop Kate dead in her tracks. As in all Rachael Treasure's novels, tragedy and violence are only ever a heartbeat away. And back into her life, too, is about to walk the father of her child. How can she ever admit the truth to him?

Reviews

Very much the successor to Catherine Cookson. Her books are plot driven, they just rip along; laughs, weeps, love, they've got the lot, and they're quality writing as well

—— Sarah Broadhurst on Radio Four

Headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayal, assassinations, Richter-scale romance, and, of course, family values

—— Time

Hugely effective fiction...[Puzo] keeps his pact with readers to unfailingly deliver the goods

—— Literary Review

Puzo is a master storyteller with an uncanny facility for details that force the reader to keep the pages turning. Call it a literary meat-hook

—— USA Today

Puzo’s genius was to create a world so thick with personality and behaviour . . . that reading his books becomes a seriously guilty pleasure

—— New York Post

Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo's best

—— Nicholas Pileggi

Pure Puzo

—— New York Daily News

A dizzying spinning-wheel of a tale, where pace is king

—— The Oxford Times
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