From the author of the bestselling novel, The Party, comes a chilling new novel of domestic suspense that revolves around two suburban women and the long-buried, dark secrets that they hold.
When Frances Metcalfe met Kate Randolph, she thought she had found a lifelong best friend. Overweight and insecure, Frances prefers to hide in the background instead of standing up for herself. Kate is everything that Frances is not: strong, beautiful, confident. Kate makes Frances want to be a better wife and mother and homemaker. Best of all, Frances’ troubled son finds a friend in Kate’s son, and stops being labeled as the outcast in the elite private school they attend. But one of these women is not who she says she is, and her secret – once out – has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Can people ever really change, or are we all stuck in our past, constantly making the same mistakes and never learning from them? Or, knowing that we’re making these mistakes but not caring enough to change, or worse, not wanting to change. This is just one of many questions brought up in Her Pretty Face. Like most of us, I would like to think that, under the right circumstances, everyone is capable of change. Not just that. That everyone is capable to want to change. In the novel, we are introduced to two women – both running away from their pasts – who form a bond. Neither of them share their secrets with each other, but they don’t need to. They understand each other in ways that no one else could: the friendship they’ve always been looking for. Some things are unforgivable, but are they really? Can their friendship stand the ultimate test?
Told in three narratives, once you pick this book up, it’s difficult to put back down. I carried it around in my purse for about a week, but read it in three days. Out now from Scout Press, I cannot wait to see what Robyn Harding does next.
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