From #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell, an writer “at the very top of her game” (Lucy Foley)—three women are linked through one man on this kaleidoscopic mystery.
“Who are you? Who are you simply?”
Nick Radcliffe is a person of substance and correct taste. He has a smile that would soften the coldest heart and a knack for putting others cozy. He’s just what Nina Swann wanted in her lifestyles after her husband’s sudden death. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick appears too slick, too polished, too true to be actual. Without telling her mother, Ash starts digging into Nick’s beyond. What she reveals is extra than unsettling…
“Because there are matters that don’t make feel, and I’ve been so patient, so very affected person…”
Martha is a florist dwelling in a neighboring city together with her little one daughter and her devoted husband Alistair. But these days, Alistair has been travelling more and more regularly for paintings, disappearing for days at a time. When Martha questions him about his common absences, he continually has a legitimate clarification, but Martha can’t proportion the feeling that something is not proper.
“You recognise that’s mad, don’t you? I’m your husband. We know the whole lot there’s to recognize about each different.”
Nina, Martha, and Ash are on a collision course with a shocking fact that is a long way darker than each person could have imagined. And all three are approximately to desire they had heeded the same warning: Don’t allow him in. But the past received’t stay buried forever.
