that touch on our deepest, most instinctive fears and fairy tales.'

' Sinister and sickeningly real, Little Darlings is fairy tale-inflected horror. Golding beautifully blends the supernatural with the everyday, keeping readers riveted to the page as they question what is true.' ' A modern story of ghosts and fairy tales. A gorgeous, creepy, modern fairy tale reminiscent of Angela Carter.' At the same time, the novel explores the fierce and desperate love we have for our children, written with beautiful intensity. 'Golding's novel will strike true fear into the heart of any parent. But if she’s wrong about what she saw…she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.Ĭompulsive, creepy, and inspired by some of our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking-and rechecking-your own little ones. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.ĭetermined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. The infants look like Morgan and Riley-to everyone else. But when they’re found, something is different about them. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.Ī month passes.

Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own… creatures. And they’re right with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. “Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy's The Perfect Mother.Įveryone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest.

Little Darlings by Melanie Golding