Judith lives alone with her daughter Annet in a quiet village. OBS De Meerkoet is the only primary school there. All the village children go there. Annet can't wait to go to big school.
Grandpa Ronnie regularly takes Annet to school. He continues to play a game on Wednesday mornings. He tells Judith that some mothers, especially one girl, exhibit strange behavior. Judith only really takes it seriously when one evening an unknown woman at the door warns about bad talk about Annet going around the village.
The signals are becoming clearer. Annet is being bullied. Judith feels sadness, frustration and ultimately blind anger when she cannot talk to Karin about her daughter Heleen's behavior and receives little understanding from the school.
Judith is looking for an outlet. Dreams and reality merge silently. A fatal accident changes everything. Can dreams actually kill?
Fiona Hack:
Fiona (1972) wrote Dream Murder as a way to cope with her daughter's bullying throughout her primary school years. Her debut novel/thriller was consciously written from the perspective of the mother, who also suffers from bullying.
Fiona Hack is known for her socially committed children's and youth books. With this book she hopes to encourage the reader to think about whether bullying in primary schools is being tackled correctly or whether thoughts about bullying behavior and its causes can be revised.
General
Author
Fiona Hack
Editorial
Final editing: Inanna van den Berg
Design
Cover: Probeeld - Design: Ton de Koning ; Pages: Ambilicious Studio
