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Club delle cattive figlie.
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They call themselves "the bad daughters" because they never feel good enough: one has to act as a mother to her own mother, another must escape a controlling parent, and yet another lives in the shadow of a prima donna. How can they break free from these dynamics? And how does the relationship differ when sons are involved? Mónica had wanted to become a detective but--literally--didn't measure up, so she settles for training police dogs. After all, she learned a thing or two at home: her mother, Elisa, has a bloodhound's nose when it comes to tracking her down, regardless of the fact that she is now an adult. Her childhood friends fare no better: Ruth became a psychiatrist to understand her family's dysfunctional relationships; Suselen rebuilt her life in London to get as far away from home as possible; Gabriel seeks freedom in the clouds. This precarious balance shatters when a man's body is found in Elisa's Madrid apartment. It is Orlando, the dog walker from Plaza de Oriente. Elisa denies knowing him, yet her name--along with those of the other three mothers--is jotted down next to their respective dogs in the victim's diary. What are they hiding, and why? When did the relationships between these "bad daughters" and their mothers go so wrong? Do they truly know one another? After exploring the imbalances in romantic relationships in her bestseller "Donne che comprano fiori" (Women Who Buy Flowers), Vanessa Montfort returns to examine the dynamics of emotional dependency--this time between mothers and daughters--infusing a perennial mystery with the elements of a crime thriller
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