Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
What if the person you believed to be the closest to you turned out to be someone you’ve never met?
Andrea Oliver is fully aware of Laura Oliver. She is aware that she has lived her entire life in the small coastal hamlet of Gallaway Island; that all she has ever wanted is to be a pillar of the neighbourhood; and that she has never kept a secret. Because don’t we all know our mothers?
But everything changes when an outing to the mall on a Saturday turns violent and Andrea discovers Laura from a whole new angle. It turns out that Laura was someone quite different before she became Laura.
She has been concealing her former identity for almost thirty years, keeping a low profile in the hope that no one will ever discover her. However, after she was revealed, nothing will ever be the same.
After 24 hours, Laura is in the hospital after being shot by an intruder who has been looking for her for 30 years in an effort to find out what she knows. Andrea is on a desperate search for clues about her mother’s past. There might not be a future for any of them if she is unable to uncover the secrets that are kept there.
Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
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The drama here gets underway with a bang when gunshots are heard while a mother and daughter are eating lunch at a café. To the amazement of her daughter, the mother leaps into action and skillfully and bravely ends the tragedy. From there, we discover that Mom is more complex than anyone could have imagined. The characters in Pieces of Her are what make it such a unique book and a classic Slaughter work, in addition to the book’s explosive and captivating plot.
Laura Cooper is completely known to Andrea Cooper. She is aware that she has lived her entire life in the small coastal hamlet of Gullaway Island; that all she has ever wanted is to be a pillar of the neighbourhood; and that she has never kept a secret. Because don’t we all know our mothers?
But everything changes when an outing to the mall on a Saturday turns violent and Andrea discovers Laura from a whole new angle. It turns out that Laura was someone quite different before she became Laura. She has been concealing her former identity for almost thirty years, keeping a low profile in the hope that no one will ever discover her.
However, after she was revealed, nothing will ever be the same.
After 24 hours, Laura is in the hospital after being shot by an intruder who has been looking for her for 30 years in an effort to find out what she knows. Andrea is on a desperate search for clues about her mother’s past. There might not be a future for any of them if she is unable to uncover the secrets that are kept there.
