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About the product • Katherine Faulkner’s debut novel is an intense thriller in the spirit of Paula Hawkins’ Girls on the Train • Faulkner created an original psychological thriller by looking at maternity leave from an unusual angle. The action moves fast and the plot is full of unexpected twists and turns. ”- SUNDAY TIMES • Masterfully Twisted Plot, Cat and Mouse Game — Ruth Weir, New York Times bestselling author • One of the Daily Mail’s Must-Read 2021 Books Helen has everything she could dream of. Ideal husband, ideal family, ideal home, long-awaited pregnancy. And then there’s Rachel, the perfect nightmare. Helen meets her at a maternity course — lonely, extravagant, scandalous and somehow very attractive. They begin to communicate. Over time, Rachel appears in Helen’s life more and more often — at first she just wants to get to know each other better, then she wants to become a family friend, wants to know everything about Helen — and, it seems, really knows her every secret. Events unfold too quickly, and it turns out that Helen is involved in a strange and confusing game. Abstract Helen’s life is perfect — an architect husband, a magnificent Victorian house, a close-knit family and a long-awaited, after many unsuccessful attempts, pregnancy. In happy anticipation, she enrolls in a maternity course in her area, where she meets Rachel — her complete opposite, loud, extravagant and lonely. Rachel somehow terribly attracts Helen to her, but soon the barely-born friendship begins to scare. A new friend seems to always be there by chance, unexpectedly comes to visit, knows, it seems, every little thing about Helen and her family. Events develop rapidly, taking the most dangerous turns, and now it is not clear who is the criminal and who is the victim in a strange and confusing game. …
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