A Double Life

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'A THRILLING PAGE-TURNER' Paula Hawkins
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 - a pretty little thing 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.

Read by Candida Gubbins
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

Critics 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

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