Nanny Dearest
Author: Flora Collins
Publication Date: November 30, 2021
Publisher: Mira
Shortly after her father passes away, Sue Keller unexpectedly runs into Annie. Annie remembers Sue quite well from her days as her childhood nanny. Sue’s initial reaction toward her former nanny is ambiguous, but her feelings slowly evolve into something different. Is it Annie herself or is it what she represents that brings up such deep emotions within her?
Annie is ultimately a mysterious and shadowy figure. As the novel progresses and more about the past is revealed, there are startling surprises - some not so pleasant, but debut author Flora Collins manages to convey them in a way that serves the purpose of the story.
From the first page I experienced an immediate sense of apprehension, and this inexplicable eeriness continues throughout the book. With themes of alienation, obsession, memory and betrayal, Nanny Dearest is a riveting read - disturbingly dark and twisted.
Thank you to Harper Collins Canada for the advanced copy provided for review.
From the publisher:
In this compulsively readable novel of domestic suspense, a young woman takes comfort in reconnecting with her childhood nanny, until she starts to uncover secrets the nanny has been holding for twenty years.
Sue Keller is lost. When her father dies suddenly, she's orphaned in her mid-twenties, her mother already long gone. Then Sue meets Annie. It’s been twenty years, but Annie could never forget that face. She was Sue’s live-in nanny at their big house upstate, and she loved Sue like she was her own.
Craving connection and mothering, Sue is only too eager to welcome Annie back into her life; but as they become inseparable once again, Sue starts to uncover the truth about Annie's unsettling time in the Keller house all those years ago, particularly the manner of her departure—or dismissal. At the same time, she begins to grow increasingly alarmed for the safety of the two new charges currently in Annie's care.
Told in alternating points of views—Annie in the mid-'90s and Sue in the present day—this taut novel of suspense will keep readers turning the pages right up to the shocking end.
You can read my original Isabella's Reading Corner post on Nanny Dearest here.
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