The Mistake I Made: the basis for the TV series DEEP WATER

With the dilemma and heart of Liane Moriarty, and the pace and twists of Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author Paula Daly returns with her latest phenomenal domestic thriller. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES, starring Anna Friel.

The basis for DEEP WATER, now a major ITV TV series, starring Anna Friel.

If you slept with a stranger for money, who’d really end up paying?

‘A page-turning thriller with heart’ Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer

We all think we know who we are.

What we’re capable of.

Roz is a single mother, a physiotherapist, a sister, a friend. She’s also desperate.

Her business has gone under, she’s crippled by debt and she’s just had to explain to her son why someone’s taken all their furniture away.

But now a stranger has made her an offer. For one night with her, he’ll pay enough to bring her back from the edge.

Roz has a choice to make.

‘A big-hearted, empathetic novel about ordinary lives and the tremors that can rock them’ Guardian