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This unputdownable novel is THE perfect mix of family drama and suspense. (Think The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt + Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.) Laura Preston’s life isn’t quite what she expected: her career as a painter is stalled, her mother’s health is failing, and she’s fallen out with her sister, Bea. And when a stranger claiming to be her brother (who disappeared 40 years earlier) appears, Laura’s forced to face her family’s darkest secrets…
Named a Best Book of 2021 by Real Simple
“This brilliant portrayal of the lives of expats and their servants is also a suspenseful mystery with ever-darkening twists. For fans of A Little Life and The Goldfinch.” —People, Book of the Week
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when ...
“This brilliant portrayal of the lives of expats and their servants is also a suspenseful mystery with ever-darkening twists. For fans of A Little Life and The Goldfinch.” —People, Book of the Week
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when ...