1. Is this a story about the enduring bond of sisterhood or the constrictive shackles of it?
2. What might the writer be exploring about the relationship between a person’s past and their present? How do memory and guilt play a part in this?
3. Who were you cheering for at the start of the book, the middle, and the end?
4. If you were in Alex or Ruth’s shoes, how do you think you’d react to the death of a sibling? How would it impact your relationships with the sister you have left?
5. Alex took Ruth into her home in her time of need, granted, she had ulterior motives. What would you do if your troublemaker sibling dropped in one day with stolen drugs and money?
6. How does Hurry Home deal with established beliefs about family, love, parenthood and the protection of children?
7. Alex, Ruth and Minerva all have a different approach to parenting/child protection and set the bar at varying heights. Is there a correct height, do you think? Whose approach did you most align with?
8. Is Hurry Home a tragedy? If not, what other kind of story is it?
9. What motivates the villain(s) in Hurry Home? Is she a psychopath, narcissist, sociopath, or something else? How does this make her similar or different to villains we usually see in psychological thrillers?
10. With the exception of her brother, whose life do you think Alex ruins the most?

1. father
2. mother
3. Ruth
4. Chase
5. Sully
6. all of the above, she’s a wrecking ball

Also Available by Roz Nay

ALSO AVAILABLE BY ROZ NAY

Our Little Secret

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Roz Nay’s debut novel, Our Little Secret, was a national bestseller in Canada, won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France, and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award. Roz has lived and worked in Africa, Australia, the US, and the UK. She now lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband and two children.