Cold in Earth

By Melissa Jones

Book Overview

" ... a remarkably well-done first effort." - Kirkus Reviews

Cold In Earth is a stark, poetic and utterly terrifying first novel.

Zoe is a mother, a television celebrity and a powerful career woman. Hers is a story that millions can only dream of. But when her baby dies, her guilt and grief plunge her into an inner landscape of dream and nightmare where the familiar becomes horrible, the unthinkable real. Her family find themselves powerless to help her as, one by one, they are drawn into a labyrinth at whose centre lies an unimaginable truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312292341
• ISBN13: 9780312292348
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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People ye have to buy this book now - I have to tell ye that it's the scariest book ever written and it is so well written it's up there with the best psychological thrillers around. I'm really surprised that more people haven't bought it because it is just so amazing. Anyway, this book rocks - really rocks - totally cool. Buy it now.

cold people

T.V. celebrity Mum, Zoe seems to have the perfect life. A stay at home husband to look after their sons while she pursues her career. A brand new daughter that she is besotted with. But Zoe is then shattered when her month old daughter dies from cot death. She retreats into a world of silence, only confiding her guilt and emptiness in her diary. When she acquainted with a 'healer', she suddenly sees her baby's death not only as an ending of a life, but a new beginning for her.She quits her job and decides to be the maternal Mum that she has never been. That doesn't quite work because she discloses in her diary that her eldest son is irritating to her so she concentrates all her attention on the younger son, who she feels a connection with. This is not a typical family, as the latter parts of the book explain. Two odd children that don't appear to speak to each other, a mother that is losing her grip on reality with grief, and a father who is accused of her murder. It is an interesting, even disturbing book, but I felt it didn't quite pull off the attempt of writing as four different people. Despite that, a good first novel.