The Story
AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAn NPR Best Book of the Year, 2015A ShelfAwareness Best Book of the Year, 2015An Entertainment Weekly Summer Books PickA Buzzfeed 31 Books to Get Excited About this Summer PickA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers PickA BookReporter Summer Reading PickA New York Post Best Novels to Read this Summer PickA Shelf Awareness Book Expo America 2015 Buzz Book PickWhat should be a cozy and funfilled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Wares suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her nest of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasnt seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Fortyeight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. Wondering not what happened? but what have I done?, Nora (Lee?) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora (Lee?) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past.In the tradition of Paula Hawkinss instant New York Times bestseller The Girl On the Train and S. J. Watsons riveting national sensation Before I Go To Sleep, this gripping literary debut from UK novelist Ruth Ware will leave you on the edge of your seat through the very last page.
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AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAn NPR Best Book of the Year, 2015A ShelfAwareness Best Book of the Year, 2015An Entertainment Weekly Summer Books PickA Buzzfeed 31 Books to Get Excited About this Summer PickA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers PickA BookReporter Summer Reading PickA New York Post Best Novels to Read this Summer PickA Shelf Awareness Book Expo America 2015 Buzz Book PickWhat should be a cozy and funfilled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Wares suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her nest of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasnt seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Fortyeight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. Wondering not what happened? but what have I done?, Nora (Lee?) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora (Lee?) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past.In the tradition of Paula Hawkinss instant New York Times bestseller The Girl On the Train and S. J. Watsons riveting national sensation Before I Go To Sleep, this gripping literary debut from UK novelist Ruth Ware will leave you on the edge of your seat through the very last page.
