‘Mother knows greatest’ assumes a sinister new meaning with this unsettling thriller perfect for followers of Neil Gaiman, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother.

Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she requirements rest. And they’re correct; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s under no circumstances been more tired in her lifestyle. But she knows what she noticed: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to consider her babies and change them with her own … creatures. Yet when the authorities about Small Darlings: A Book arrived, they noticed no-one. Everyone, from her doctor to her hubby, thinks she’s imagining stuff.

A month passes. And one bright summer morning hours, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side within a park. But when they’re discovered, something differs about them. The newborns appear to be Morgan and Riley-to everyone else-but to Lauren, something is definitely off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, ‘These aren’t my babies!’

Determined to bring her true infant sons house, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she noticed, she’ll be producing the largest mistake of her existence.

Compulsive, creepy, and inspired by some our darkest fairy tales, Small Darlings will have you checking-and rechecking-your very own little ones. In order to be sure. Just to be safe.

An Apr 2019 LibraryReads Find. A Booklist Pick and choose of Top 10 10 Books of Women’s Fiction.