FRAN HAWTHORNE
What happens after a husband slowly poisons a child against her mother?
​“...a stunner.”–CAROLINE LEAVITT, New York Times best-selling author
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"a poignant, page-turning, emotional read.”–JENNIFER ROSNER, National Jewish Book Award finalist
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About HER DAUGHTER
I’m only telling you in case the police contact you. Esme was arrested, but I’m handling everything, and she doesn’t want to hear from you.
That email from her ex-husband is almost the only information Alice Wilson has had about her 23-year-old daughter, Esme, in the six years since Esme abruptly ended all communication.
As Alice, an environmental activist, scrambles to learn why Esme was arrested and what might happen next, she inevitably also retraces the past. Her obsessive search up and down the California coast antagonizes her friends and jeopardizes her job. But none of that matters to Alice, as she uncovers hints of a daughter she’d never known—and of her then-husband’s role in their estrangement, even while they were married . . (Read more)
About Fran
Photo by Jolene Siana
For more than three decades, beginning in college, I built a career writing award-winning nonfiction, including seven books about consumer activism and business social responsibility.
But I’ve been writing fiction even longer—since I was four years old. In 2018, I finally returned full-force to my lifelong dream of being a novelist. HER DAUGHTER is my third published novel, and of course I'm deep into the revisions of my fourth book ... (Read more)
