The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Frequently her tone has a strong flavour, pungent and fermented.From the author of THE PUSH, a pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens-and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices

Her prose is often incantatory, her dialogue lightly stylized.

Praise for Beware the Woman: The 'stunningly twisty' (Ashley Audrain) new novel from the bestselling authorĪbbott's novels are often described as crime fiction, and, while indeed she works with mystery and suspense and draws on noir and Gothic tropes, her goal seems less to construct intricate, double-crossing plot problems than to explore the dark side of femininity. 'One of the finest writers working in any genre' MARK BILLINGHAM Read More Read Less 'The work of a fearless cartographer of the darkest, seediest, most gloriously haunted landscapes of the human heart and psyche' KELLY LINK Nobody, but nobody does creeping dread like she does' SAM BAKER 'A bewitchingly creepy tale thriller queen Megan Abbott' OPRAH DAILY But are her fears founded or is this -as is suggested to her-a stubborn refusal to take necessary precautions to protect her unborn child? The dense woods surrounding the cottage are full of dangers, but are the greater ones inside? As the days pass, Jacy feels trapped in the cottage, her body under the looking glass. Swiftly, all eyes are on Jacy's condition, and whispers about Jed's long-dead mother seem to be intruding upon the present. Ash, if less so by his housekeeper, the enigmatic Mrs.

When she and her husband, Jed, go to visit his father in his remote cottage, Jacy feels bathed in love by Dr. Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy has everything she ever wanted. 'Feverish, razor sharp, and pulsing with dread' RILEY SAGER, author of The House Across the Lakeįrom New York Times bestselling author Megan Abbott, an eerie and prescient novel about a family holiday that takes a terrifying turn. I loved it' HARRIET TYCE, author of It Ends at Midnight

'Stunningly twisty' ASHLEY AUDRAIN, author of The Push From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, an eerie and prescient novel about a family outing gone terribly awry.

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