You know you have something special when it becomes watercooler talk for months on end. Another had the manuscript propped up next to her phone so she could read between calls, and last week in the elevator, people around me suddenly started competing over who'd read it fastest, and who was more surprised by the ending. At a recent meeting, a colleague who was twelve pages from the end was secretly reading them under the table because she could not stop. Within days of my introducing the manuscript in March, people from every department were regularly pulling me aside to testify to how much they loved the read, how they couldn't put it down. but it's hard not to be swayed when you read: it's an incredibly fast-paced and engrossing psychological thriller, and i was on board as soon as i read the editor's bit of ARC-copy, even though i know that writing those things is part of the job and not at all unbiased. Oh, yeah - this one is going to be a must-read for those people looking to find their next Gone Girl experience. I read it and I thought, I'm not that bad. I once read a book by a former alcoholic where she described giving oral sex to two different men, men she'd just met in a restaurant on a busy London high street.
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