In a phonebooth beside a dusty Arizona highway, fifteen-year-old Cate listens ir on yet another conversation between Les (the man who has raised her since she was an infant) and her mother. But this is no ordinary parental discussion for the woman at the end of the line hasn't seen her daughter since she was three vears old, and the man in the phonebooth with Cate is the homeless drifter who abducted her from beside her sleeping parents over a decade ago.
Now Les has finally decided that the time has come for Cate to go home
But how will Cate cope with learning to love a mother she can't remember and with learnina to refect the father- figure she has loved for twelve years? How will her English mother square the memories of her three-vear-olc daughter with the hard-bitten, poorly educated and cynical teenager who turns up on her doorstep in Virginia:
And what will happen to them both when the awful secret Cate IS hiding is brought out into the open?
Electrifying, brílliantly written and tau with suspense, The Reckoning is ar intense and riveting meditation on the themes of loss and reunion, parent: and children, and nature versus nurture.
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