You panic when the school administration tells you they have no record of your daughter even registering for pre-school let alone attending the first day. You look for her, for her teacher, but you can't find either.

You wait with all of the other mothers, none of whom you know since you are new in town and on your own, as they watch their children come down the stairway. You pick your three-year-old daughter up from her first day of pre-school. Prime pulp-pure pleasure.” -Linda Fairstein, author of The Bone Vault Read more “A classic thriller-a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. Blanche emerges as a new kind of heroine-a hard-boiled mom with gun in hand, willing to take any risk to find her missing daughter. In this fraught and at times freakish tale of suspense, Evelyn Piper takes us deep into the psyche of the 1950s to explore American fetishes, fallacies, and fears around motherhood and sexuality. Neither teachers nor students recall the small girl, and soon Blanche is engaged in a frantic search for any trace of her missing daughter. But her expectant waiting becomes a mother’s most dreaded nightmare: Bunny never materializes. It’s the first day of school when this story begins, and Blanche is eager to see how her daughter, Bunny, has fared away from home.

She lives alone, has a job, and has never been married. 'The distraught, gusty, and hip mother I played in Bunny Lake Is Missing is my all-time favorite role.The classic novel of suspense is “a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive” ( Oakland Tribune).īlanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children at the local nursery school on New York’s Upper East Side. master of taut and impelling writing, a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive.' - Oakland Tribune frantic scenes of action, contagious terror and near hysteria.' - San Francisco Chronicle Prime pulp-pure pleasure.' -Linda Fairstein, author of The Bone Vault 'A brilliant tale of psychological suspense, Bunny Lake Is Missing is a classic thriller-a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. Is she the victim of a diabolical plot-or is she a chimera in the twisted mind of Blanche Lake, a young working mother just arrived in New York who's left behind the shame of being the mistress of a married man? An eccentric and creepy supporting cast and a dose of dark humor complement a core of gripping psychological suspense. Bunny Lake is missing after her first day at nursery school.

Bunny Lake Is Missing by Evelyn Piper