Saving sophie: a gripping debut psychological

When Karen Finch?s seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after a night out disastrously drunk and accompanied by police officers, no one is smiling the morning after. But, though Sophie remembers nothing about how she got into a such a state, no harm seems to have been done. Twelve hours later, Sophie?s friend Amy has still not returned home ? and then the body of a young woman is found.Karen is sure Sophie knows more than she is letting on about the death, but Karen herself has her own demons to fight ? a former probation officer who is now agoraphobic after an assault, possibly by a client, she struggles to go beyond her own door without a panic attack. As Karen becomes more and more certain that Sophie is not only involved but also in danger, she must find a way through her own crippling anxieties to stop whoever killed one young girl moving on to another ? her own daughter. This gripping novel is told from multiple viewpoints, and the two main voices are those of a mother and her seventeen-year-old daughter. It?s a fascinating read which explores the mother/daughter relationship.