The Long, Long Afternoon
And when the police are called in to unravel the mystery of the girls’ missing mother, they soon find that the sunniest of places can hold the darkest of secrets.
In one of the most exciting, atmospheric and piercingly astute debut novels of 2021, German-born Londoner and journalist Inga Vesper takes us deep into the heart of the Fifties’ American Dream, a time and place that was extolled as the perfect way to live by many of those who looked in from the other side of the immaculate white picket fences.
That rose-tinted picture of families with apple-cheeked children, a hard-working father, and a mother who happily did the chores, the laundry and the cooking is turned on its head in this gripping mystery which explores racial tensions, domestic oppression, and the early days of the women’s rights movement.