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Beautifully written and suffused with dread. Jane Shemilt''s domestic settings are seductively vivid, and the final outcome is profoundly shocking and terrifying. — Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of The Nanny

Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty psychological thriller, follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s breakout debut The Daughter.

Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout.

There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful inter

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/12/2019
      ISBN13: 9780062939425, 978-0062939425
      ISBN10: 0062939424

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Beautifully written and suffused with dread. Jane Shemilt''s domestic settings are seductively vivid, and the final outcome is profoundly shocking and terrifying. — Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of The Nanny

      Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty psychological thriller, follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s breakout debut The Daughter.

      Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout.

      There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful inter

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