Dear Hanna : a novel

Dear Hanna A novel

Zoje Stage

Book - 2024

Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago. And extensive therapy--and writing letters to her younger brother--has since curbed those nasty tendencies. Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she's also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist--a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people. But when Joelle begins to change in ways that don't suit Hanna's purposes, her carefully planned existence threatens to come apart. With life slipping out of her control, Hanna reverts... to old habits, determined to manipulate the events and people around her. And the only thing worse than a baby sociopath is a fully grown one.

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Subjects
Psychopaths > Fiction.
Stepmothers > Fiction.
Manipulative behavior > Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction
Novels
Published
Seattle : Thomas & Mercer [2024]
Language
English
Main Author
Zoje Stage (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
313 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781662521003
9781662520990
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Review by Booklist Review

Stage has become a popular voice in the space where psychological suspense and horror overlap, and readers have long clamored for a sequel to her debut novel, Baby Teeth (2018). She has finally thoughtfully obliged with a stand-alone follow-up, a story that can be read either before or after that first book, with each informing the other. In Dear Hanna, Stage brings readers into Hanna's life as a 24-year-old phlebotomist married to a 40-year-old widower and stepmother to his 16-year-old daughter. The book is told from Hanna's clearly unreliable perspective, and as she shares her troubled past and dark thoughts, readers see how her meticulously constructed "normal" existence is put to the test by raising a teenager and being a wife. As things spiral out of control, readers' feelings about Hanna will fluctuate between disgust and sympathy. All will squirm uncomfortably and yet be unwilling to look away, furiously turning the pages until the final twist is revealed. A great choice for those who enjoy the work of Sarah Pinborough, Catriona Ward, and Katrina Monroe.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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