Tara O’Sullivan is a novelist, freelance editor and proofreader. Raised mainly in Cornwall, she studied creative writing at the University of Exeter and was longlisted for the Discoveries Prize. The Quiet Ones is her debut.
O’Sullivan’s debut uses an adult return to childhood to examine guilt and unreliable recollection. Its three-girl friendship gives the suspense a specific emotional center for readers who prefer psychological uncertainty to an investigator-led case.