The Waiting List
An emotional rollercoaster, an agonising dilemma and a blistering book club debut
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Matilda Wilding
'Clever and brilliantly observed' Emily Edwards, author of The Herd
'Gripping, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down' Emily Freud
Whose life means the most?
'Clutched tight in my hand is a scrawled list of names… A list of people who could save my life.'
Liv wants to be the mother she never had
Liv has always dreamt of the moment she will hold her own baby. But just at the moment her new life – as a devoted mother to Max, a loving wife to Justin – should be starting, it looks like it may be ending. An undiagnosed heart condition, worsened by her pregnancy, has thrown her whole future into doubt. If she doesn't receive an urgent transplant, she won't live much longer.
But what if she can't be here for her son?
As she grows weaker, her determination to raise her baby grows stronger. Without her to protect him, what future does Max face? Slowly Liv begins to ask herself a terrible question: she needs someone's healthy heart to replace her failing one. For that to happen, an accident would have to befall someone else. But what if she could engineer that accident herself? What if she could choose someone to die in order that she could live?
If the end of someone else's life offers you the chance of saving your own, whose life means the most?
A powerful and completely gripping novel about love, sacrifice and how life forces you to do the unthinkable.©2023 Matilda Wilding (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Commentaires
Extraordinary ... brilliantly unpredictable
Kept me turning the pages
Wrenching, twisting, love-soaked and tense, Wilding’s debut is everything a thriller should be (Bonnie Burke-Patel, author of Dead As Gold and I Died At Fallow Hall)
So clever and brilliantly observed. I felt so acutely [Liv’s] agonising dilemma, her fear for her son and the sometimes brutal nature of love. I definitely let out a few gasps at the end! It reminded me a lot of Broken Country – which I also loved (Emily Edwards, author of The Herd and Private Lives)
This twisty debut asks not just how far we’d go for those we love, but whether one person’s life can ever be worth more than another’s - a thought-provoking page turner that will keep you guessing to the very end (Lucy Atkins, author of Windmill Hill and bestselling Magpie Lane)
A devastating moral dilemma that asks how far a mother would go to stay alive for her child. Gripping, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down (Emily Freud, author of Her Last Summer and The Cliffhanger)
This taut thriller simmers with the slow-burn tension of a life-threatening dilemma that has no easy answers. Wilding writes vivid prose that elevates a unique scenario to make for a compelling read. Recommended for a deliciously dark book club read that will have you asking ‘What would I do?' (Jo Furniss, author of Guilt Trip)
A perfect blend of heart and guts (pun intended), The Waiting List is a deft and sensitive exploration of a horrifying dilemma, and the lengths we will go to protect the sanctity of a much longed-for family. Beautifully written, and searingly insightful, this is an intelligent and propulsive debut balancing all the right elements of a true psychological thriller (Lizzy Barber, bestselling author of Out of her Depth)
It is beautifully written, heartbreaking (and at times heart-stopping) with plenty of twists to keep me turning the pages. The raw, visceral emotion of a mother’s love for her child is perfectly rendered on the page and the clever, surprising plot ensured I was invested right up until the very end (Kathryn Sharman, author of The Family at No. 23)
The Waiting List is a stunning debut - impeccably plotted and delivering fresh tension with every twist. I was gripped from the first page, and the depth of the emotion in this novel - and the moral dilemma at its heart - will stay with me for a long time to come (Hannah Brennan, author of No Safe Place and Nothing Left Behind)
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