{"product_id":"witness","title":"Witness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery morning, Nessa braids her daughter's hair. Every morning, she watches.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNessa Carrow is a good mother. She keeps lists. She tracks milestones. She notices everything: the way seven-year-old Wren flinches at certain textures, retreats from crowds, draws the same strange patterns over and over. After a traumatic birth left Nessa convinced that looking away means losing her daughter, she has built her life around one principle: watch closely enough, and you can keep a child safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen developmental psychologist Dr Asha Penderton recruits Wren for a university study, Nessa feels rescued. Finally, a professional who takes her concerns seriously. The data confirms what Nessa has always believed. Wren is stabilising, improving, becoming the child everyone can see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Wren's best friend can no longer reach her. Her drawings have gone blank. The fierce, strange, pattern-seeking girl who once pressed her ear to drains and invented words for things no one else noticed is disappearing, replaced by a child who is cooperative, legible, and praised by everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWren is becoming exactly what her mother sees. Nothing more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the kitchens, classrooms, and school runs of suburban England, \u003cem\u003eWitness\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of domestic horror about the terror of loving too closely - a mother who discovers that her attention is not protecting her daughter but erasing the parts of her she cannot name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Han Kang, and Samanta Schweblin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kiftsgate Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67475207946544,"sku":"9781919064000","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/witness","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}