Molly Lynch Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Molly Lynch is a Canadian-Irish writer. Her first novel was published by Catapult Books.

The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman is the first novel from Molly Lynch. Fate and Furies meets Melancholia in an ominous and absorbing first novel about marriage and motherhood in a time of ecological collapse as mothers all over the world start to mysteriously vanish from their homes.

Ada is a woman from Montreal living in Michigan and she goes missing from her bed one night while her husband Danny is asleep beside her while Gilles, her young son sleeps in the next room.

Danny is desperate to find Ada before Gilles figures out what happened and starts a search. However, the feds are already involved. Across the country and all over the world, mothers are vanishing from the homes they live in.

Danny just wants to know where Ada has gone. He worries about what she has been through. Does the mystery also relate to the forest that she seemed so magnetically drawn to?

The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman takes on the role of motherhood and the meaning of home in the wreckage of capitalism and climate change. It is a rare dazzling debut that readers will find both thrilling and profound in its mystery and its core story about love. Can this woman, man and child find their way back to each other again? Or are they destined to forever be apart? Read this book from Molly Lynch to find out!