Happy Book Birthday to Elisabeth de Mariaffi! Her new 
book HYSTERIA publishes on March 6th with HarperCollins Canada, and already the rave reviews and praise for this novel is flowing in. Check out the reviews, media highlights, a description of the book and more below. Also, watch for the novel to publish in the UK with Titan Publishing Group in the future!
Read a sample of the novel here: www.sample-c86ea2bd73711f591a04dccfc62e6b57.read.overdrive.com/?p=_eyJzbHVnIjoiaHlzdGVyaWEtNmIyNThhIiwiZm9ybWF0IjoiNjEwIn0=
Advance Praise:
“In Hysteria, Elisabeth de Mariaffi has crafted an epic and haunting story that manages to be both rich in character and setting and breakneck in pace. You will find yourself thinking about it long after you’ve turned the last pages.” —Amy Stuart, author of Still Mine
“Hysteria is a creepy, at times terrifying, thrill ride—taut and smart, and totally unpredictable.” —Zoe Whittall, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist The Best Kind of People
“Hysteria is shout-out-from-the-rooftops good. It is unpredictable, laced with evil and mystery, and impossible to put down. A horrifying modern-day fairy tale, Hysteria is finely written, haunting in its construction, and compelling from the first page to the last.” —Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The Book of Negroes and The Illegal
“The story moves at a breakneck pace. . . . Hysteria not only provides the thrills of a suspenseful, disturbing read. On a deeper level, the novel highlights the manipulation, coercion, and abuse of women, that sadly, remains an urgent issue today.” —Quill & Quire
“Hysteria is a novel about many things-a mother’s love, the institution of psychiatry. But at heart, it is a novel about the ordinary corruptibility of plot: how certain men wield narrative to manipulate women, to convince them that they are crazy and the world that denies them their happiness is sane…Hysteria imagines a woman’s world as a safer, more just, place.” – The Walrus
Shelagh Rogers tweeted about HYSTERIA calling it a “page-turner” and calling Elisabeth de Mariaffi a “master!”
From the Publisher: “The closer she gets to the truth, the faster it slips away.
Heike Lerner’s life looks perfect from the outside: she’s settled into an easy routine of caring for her young son, Daniel, and spends her days wandering the woods near their summer house, while her nights are filled with clinking glasses and charming conversation. It all helps to keep her mind at ease—or at least that’s what her husband, Eric, tells her. But lately, Heike’s noticed there are some things out of place: a mysterious cabin set back in the trees and a strange little girl who surfaces alone at the pond one day, then disappears—while at home Eric is becoming increasingly more controlling. Something sinister that Heike cannot quite put her finger on is lingering just beneath the surface of this idyllic life.
It’s possible Heike’s worries are all in her head, but when the unthinkable happens—Daniel vanishes while she and Eric are at a party one night—she can no longer deny that something is very wrong.
Desperate to find her son, Heike will try anything, but Eric insists on a calm that feels so cold she wonders if she can trust him at all.
Could Eric be involved in Daniel’s disappearance? Or has some darker thing taken him? The closer Heike gets to the truth, the faster it slips away. But she will not rest until she finds her son.”
Media:
www.cbc.ca/books/24-works-of-canadian-fiction-to-watch-for-in-the-first-half-of-2018-1.4481582