The Maid Poetry “A scintillating coming-of-age story about

“A scintillating coming-of-age story about the brutal bonds of female boarding school friendships

What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in

Typically rich with Ford’s emotional lucidity and lyrical precision

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 26

Dave McKean

The Maid Poetry “A scintillating coming-of-age story aboutA charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty five year old Molly has been