A Double Life: 'Psychological suspense has a new reigning queen' - Hardcover

Berry, Flynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474607012 ISBN 13: 9781474607018

Publisher: W&N, 2018

Synopsis

'A THRILLING PAGE-TURNER' Paula Hawkins
'SHOCKING AND SATISFYING' New York Times, Editor's Choice
'WHAT A BOOK!' Clare Mackintosh
'BEAUTIFULLY PACED AND SATISFYINGLY OMINOUS' Observer

'Confirms the promise of Berry's debut, Under the Harrow... Mesmerisingly effective' The Sunday Times | 'Shocking' Guardian | 'Berry gives the well-worn story of Lord Lucan a fresh twist with this clever tale' i (Best Beach Reads for Summer) | 'A compulsive page-turner' Daily Mail | 'A damning dissection on class and privilege. Fans of Elizabeth Day's The Party will love this' Sarra Manning, Red Online | 'Psychological suspense has a new reigning queen' New York Journal of Books

Some wounds need more than time. They crave revenge.

Claire's father is a privileged man: handsome, brilliant, the product of an aristocratic lineage and an expensive education, surrounded by a group of devoted friends who would do anything for him.

But when he becomes the prime suspect in a horrific attack on Claire's mother - an outsider who married into the elite ranks of society and dared escape her gilded cage - fate and privilege collide, and a scandal erupts.

Claire's father disappears overnight, his car abandoned, blood on the front seat.

Thirty years after that hellish night, Claire is obsessed with uncovering the truth, and she knows that the answer is held behind the closed doors of beautiful townhouses and country estates, safeguarded by the same friends who all those years before had answered the call to protect one of their own.

Because they know where Claire's father is.

They helped him escape.

And it's time their pristine lives met her fury.

Praise for Flynn Berry and her first novel Under the Harrow:
'BERRY TRANSFIXES THE READER' Guardian
'THE BOOK'S TRIUMPH IS NORA'S VOICE' The Sunday Times
'AN EXQUISITELY TAUT AND INTENSE DEBUT' Washington Post

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Review

Berry skips between Claire's present-day investigations and her reconstruction of her parents' lives almost three decades earlier in this beautifully paced and satisfyingly ominous story. (Observer)

As well as confirming the promise of Berry's debut, Under the Harrow, the book demonstrates that fusing fiction and true crime can be mesmerisingly effective. (The Sunday Times)

Flynn Berry writes thrillingly about women raging against a world that protects cruel and careless men. She's less preoccupied by scenes of abuse than the psychological toll of its threat. Her protagonists seethe over their knowledge of violence and are fueled by a howling grief for its victims. Berry proved in Under the Harrow that her prose can be as blistering as it is lush. Here, too, the writing is rich and moody, without any unnecessary fuss... The ending is as shocking as it is satisfying. (New York Times, Editor's Choice)

[An] interesting ... reimagining of the Lord Lucan story... Berry brings the story to a satisfyingly shocking conclusion. (Guardian)

A compulsive page-turner (Daily Mail)

A Double Life isn't just a whodunit but a damning dissection on class and privilege too. Fans of Elizabeth Day's The Party will love this. (Sarra Manning, Red Online)

A stifling air of unease builds with every page (Prima)

A quietly menacing thriller by up-and-coming talent Flynn Berry. (Good Housekeeping UK)

Psychological suspense has a new reigning queen (New York Journal of Books)

A detailed and compelling story of a family's fallout from a brutal crime, and the search for truth and retribution. (Fanny Blake, Woman & Home)

Book Description

The Secret History meets Lullaby in this phenomenal novel of privilege, deception and fury.

About this edition

• Publisher: W&N
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1474607012
• ISBN 13: 9781474607018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288