Saving Phoebe Murrow
Herta Feely
(Author)Description
A story about the timeless struggle between mothers and their teen daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist. This heart-wrenching, harrowing debut novel for fans of Big Little Lies (Liane Moriarty) and Reconstructing Amelia (Kimberly McCreight) will make you question what's needed to keep your children from harm. Phoebe's mother, Isabel, is precariously balancing her career and her family.
Hard-working and caring, worried but supportive, all Isabel wants, in a world of bullies and temptations, is to keep her daughter Phoebe safe. With her busy schedule, though, she fails to recognize another mother's mounting fury and the danger Phoebe faces by flirting with a mysterious boy on Facebook. A cyber-bullying episode aimed at Phoebe pushes her to the edge with horrific consequences. In her search for justice, Isabel, a DC lawyer, sets out to find the culprit behind this cruel incident.
Saving Phoebe Murrow, set amidst the complicated web of adolescent relationships, tells a story of miscommunication and malice, drugs and Facebook, prejudice and revenge.
Product Details
| Publisher | Upper Hand Press LLC |
| Publish Date | September 02, 2016 |
| Pages | 425 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780996439565 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches | 1.3 pounds |
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Reviews
An emotionally weighty look at a teen's pain and her mother's attempts to soothe it. [...] This book is satisfyingly coherent and compulsively readable.
--Emily Harburg, Washington Independent Review of BooksI think every parent should read Saving Phoebe Murrow, not as a work of fiction, but as a diagnostic and preventive aid.
--Anonymous parent and book reviewerThis is Herta's debut novel. She tackles cyber bullying, which as a parent scares the hell out of me. Now this book is totally a novel but was a total educational book for me. I totally recommend parents to read this and start an open conversation with their children.... Isabel is a lawyer, a wife and a mother of a 14 year old and 10 year old... She is like every mother I know, she is trying to do it all and questions every decision she makes. ... Saving Phoebe Murrow was an amazing and heartbreaking story. I loved Phoebe and my heart broke for her. Herta's writing was amazing, she really made me think. Bullying was one thing when I was in high school. It was notes and rumors and just mean girls you could kind of avoid....now a days cyber bullying is WOW..I have no words. The things that happened in this book at the hands of mean girls is terrifying. I highly recommend everyone to read this book and have a discussion with your children about kindness, let's end bullying....again I will get off my soap box.--Stephanie Showmaker (STEPH AND CHRIS'S BOOK REVIEW)
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