After the End

In this riveting domestic thriller, a standalone sequel to Mothers’ Instinct, a recent divorcée and her two children befriend their new neighbours, only to realise there's something dangerously unsettling about the couple next door.

After separating from her work-obsessed husband, Nora Depardieu is ready for a fresh start. With her vivacious teenage daughter and eight-year-old son in tow, she moves into half of a cosy two-family house in a tranquil suburb and goes to work as a teacher’s aide.

Being a working single mother is a challenge, and Nora is grateful when her new next-door neighbour, Tiphaine Geniot, offers to watch the kids. The arrangement thrills Nora’s daughter, who has begun a mutual flirtation with Tiphaine’s fifteen-year-old son, Milo.

But Nora doesn’t know that the Geniots are a disturbed couple whose lives were destroyed by a devastating loss. She also doesn’t know a tragic secret about Milo that is also connected to her new house.

As the truth of the past comes to light, what Nora doesn’t know could kill her...

Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.