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The Betrayals
Oct 10, 2024 12:31 PM

Author:Fiona Neill

The Betrayals

THE DEVASTATINGLY EXPLOSIVE RICHARD & JUDY PICK AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk coast.

Best friends Rosie and Lisa's families had always been inseparable.

But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie's husband Nick.

And now, after years of silence, she sends Rosie a letter begging for help. A letter which exposes dark secrets.

Daughter Daisy's fragile hold on reality begins to unravel.

Teenage son Max blames himself for everything that happened that long hot summer.

And Nick must confront his own version of events.

There are four sides to this story. Who will you believe?

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'No one writes about modern family with more truth and authenticity than Fiona Neill' Lisa Jewell

'A rollicking read that should not be picked up at bedtime, or you'll be done for in terms of a good night's sleep' Stylist

'A vivid and insightful portrayal of a family in crisis. A writer at the top of her game' Gillian McAllister

'Thought-provoking and stands out from the crowd' Grazia

Reviews

Sometimes there are four sides to a story - but which one will you believe in the engrossing RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK, The Betrayals

—— from the publisher's description

A rollicking read that should not be picked up at bedtime, or you'll be done for in terms of a good night's sleep. Neill is brilliant at capturing the wrong turns people make and the consequences that follow

—— Stylist

Exquisitely drawn and perfectly realised, no one writes about modern family with more truth and authenticity than Fiona Neill. She nails it every single time

—— Lisa Jewell , Sunday Times bestselling author of I Found You

A vivid and insightful portrayal of a family in crisis; Neill's writing is incisive, smart and at times darkly funny. A writer at the top of her game; I will be telling everybody I know about this book

—— Gillian McAllister , Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything but the Truth

Telling the story of four intriguing family members in the years following an affair and a break-up, the cleverly structured plot revolves around psychology: particularly how people perceive and recall the same events differently. The Betrayals is thought-provoking and stands out from the crowd

—— Grazia

Neill's plotting is beyond compare . . . Weaving an utterly absorbing account of deception and desire, Neill leaves you asking the question: Which voice can you trust?

—— Nicola Moriarty , author of The Fifth Letter

I thoroughly enjoyed this brilliantly observed novel about a family in meltdown. I have never read anything by Fiona Neill before, but after reading this totally absorbing tale, that is a situation I intend to rectify

—— Kathryn Hughes , Number One Kindle bestselling author of The Letter

Praise for The Good Girl

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Tapping into the issues of the day . . . this is a novel made for heated book club debates

—— Stylist

Sometimes touching, sometimes shocking... this cautionary coming-of-age tale is a thought-provoking one

—— Daily Mail

The Good Girl is vivid and insightful, and Neill has a trained eye for the pressures and poignancies of modern family life

—— Guardian

Neill writes with verve, honesty and breathtaking insight. Utterly unputdownable

—— Helen Walsh , author of The Lemon Grove

The Good Girl raises all kinds of contemporary issues with wit and sensitivity

—— Times

Clever, grown-up and totally gripping

—— Lisa Jewell

A topical, tense and addictive read

—— Good Housekeeping

The Good Girl looks set to be the next Gone Girl, with its dark compelling exploration of family secrets . . .

—— Seven Books to Read, House Seven

Neill takes a light scalpel to online disaster in this exceptional dual-narrative

—— Grazia

Cracking

—— Prima

Two families become embroiled in each other's lives and long buried secrets are unravelled. Contemporary issues are tackled here with both humour and realism, making for an engrossing read

—— My Weekly

Neill's characters are so cleverly depicted, you feel as if you've met at least one of them before

—— Vogue

An absorbing psychological study of greed, loyalty and cultural conflict

—— Malcolm Forbes , National

The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith

—— Metro

A masterful and sophisticated psychological thriller that explores moral ambiguity from multiple perspectives

—— BBC.com

Taut psychological thriller that’s as sinister as it is thrilling. A real unputdownable effort that examines morality and privilege

—— Love It!

Smart, seductive… A sophisticated page-turner

—— Mackenzie Dawson , Angle News

Osborne is a literary writer – and a brilliant one – and this sumptuously written superbly observed study of misplaced idealism and moral expediency reads a bit like a thriller penned by F Scott Fitzgerald

—— Metro

Malevolent, gripping… A compelling read, acutely observed and beautifully written. For all the character defects of the principal protagonists, the reader wants to find out what happens to them. It matters. And there can be no higher praise than that

—— Richard Hopton , Country & Town House

This complex, thrilling novel focuses on Naomi Codrington, a young lawyer who befriends Samantha, a malleable American teenager, while summering with her father and stepmother on the Greek island of Hydra. When they find a Syrian refugee washed up on the shore, calamity comes rushes in.

—— The Mail on Sunday

Thrilling, chilling and contains the following subtext: best stay at home

—— Strong Words

Birdcage Walk offers a persuasively grimy period evocation of contemporary domestic peril facing women, not least in an agonising childbirth scene that has traumatic consequences

—— Anthony Cummins , Metro

Gripping historical drama

—— Irish Country Magazine

A story of idealism and possessive love, with strong and memorable characters

—— Choice Magazine

Helen definitely has a deft touch when it comes to history but the vividness of Lizzie and Diner's relationship is what stands out in glorious literary 3D. Speaking as someone raised in Bristol, I'll never be able to gaze down into the Gorge again without seeing that rowing boat. Bleak can be hauntingly beautiful and between these covers Helen demonstrates how

—— The Bookbag

She vividly brings to live the struggle of women’s lives in late 18th century Bristol, and I recommend the book for an insight into Bristol in another time

—— Western Daily Press

From the swish of a silk dress, to the whoosh of the guillotine, Dunmore uses words with economic precision to build up the detail and suspense of this novel. Which haunts the reader just as the characters in it are haunted by the dead.

—— The Tablet

Flawless final historical novel from the late, great Helen Dunmore

—— Woman & Home

A lively and inventive voice … by all account as brilliant as her other books

—— Good Housekeeping

Early feminism and a hint of Grand Designs: a great mix’

—— i paper
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