You: Now a Major Netflix series (Volume 1) (YOU series) - Softcover

Kepnes, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471137376 ISBN 13: 9781471137372

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2015

Synopsis

'Thriller of the year' Daily Mail

When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works he is instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: tough, razor-smart and sexier than his wildest dreams. He'd kill to have her.
Soon Beck can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. When a string of macabre incidents tears her world apart there is only one person she can turn to. But there's more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. The obsessive relationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences...
A chilling account of unrelenting, terrifying deceit, Caroline Kepnes' You is a thriller more perversely clever and dangerously twisted than any YOU have ever read.

About this title

Review:

'I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious.' Lena Dunham

'There are resonances of The Collector by John Fowles, and Stephen King's Misery... There are hints of Gone Girl, but the story is both original and compelling. If you only read one new thriller this year, make it this one. It will stay with you long after you have put it down.' Daily Mail

'A fantastically creepy thriller... The kind of book you put your life on hold for.' Glamour

'YOU is the story of a man's obsession with a student unlucky enough to turn up in his bookstore. The twist? You'll end up (almost) siding with the stalker... Clever and chilling.' Elle

'A brilliant tale of obsessive love that centres on Joe, the stalker, and Beck, the victim of his infatuation. It's Gone Girl meets a sinister version of Girls.' Marie Claire

'An addictive thriller!' Closer

'If you liked Gone Girl's portrayal of a marriage in decline, the demented love story at the heart of YOU will have you gripped... YOU is the love-hate child of Patricia Highsmith and Bret Easton Ellis. Goldberg draws Beck into his web, only to discover she has a web of her own; there is sex, violence and deception aplenty, with a liberal application of American Psycho-esque pop culture. But the rotten heart of Kepnes' novel is Goldberg himself, a perversely charismatic Tom Ripley for the social media age. This book will give you Stockholm syndrome.' -- Harper's Bazaar
'Chilling...[Kepnes's] will have readers looking over their shoulders.' Publisher's Weekly

'A deeply dark yet mesmerizing first novel of two people caught in a romantic tangle with an ever-tightening knot.' Booklist

'Is Caroline Kepnes' YOU the next GONE GIRL? It'll take you inside a psychopath's head... and might even make you like him. A mad and macabre love story.' TimeOut Australia

'Chilling...unrelenting.' USAToday.com

'All-consuming a book that will not release its hold on you, even when you are not actively reading it.' BoloBooks.com

'You...had the page-turning quality of classic (Stephen) King at his peak.' -- The Devil's Advocate

'Could be the next GONE GIRL...a perverse suspense romance about obsession, sex, and secrets.' -- PopSugar.com

From the Author:

When Caroline Kepnes worked at a bookstore in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, she had to keep handwritten track of all books purchased in a notebook. This led to awkward silences with some customers, great banter with others. While working at this shop, Caroline read Lolita. Several years later, she is the author of You, a novel about an obsessive bookseller. Caroline is currently splitting her time between Los Angeles, California and Cape Cod while she writes Love, the sequel to You. Caroline has written about television and boy bands (Hi, Westlife) for Entertainment Weekly and Tiger Beat, among other outlets. And she has scripted episodes of 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. If you Google her, you will find that she has written many short stories as well. She avoids needles and freeways whenever possible.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1471137376
• ISBN 13: 9781471137372
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432