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The New Neighbor
Leah Stewart
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2016-06-28
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Women
Fiction / Southern
ISBN
1501103520
9781501103520
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bhR5DAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In the tradition of Zoe Heller’s
What Was She Thinking?
Notes on a Scandal
,
The New Neighbor
is “a chilling page-turner”
(People)
with “simple, elegant language” (
The New York Times Book Review
) about an old woman’s curiosity turned into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her mysterious new neighbor’s complicated life.
How much can you really know about the woman next door?
Ninety-year-old Margaret Riley is content hiding from the world. Stoic and independent, she rarely leaves the Tennessee mountaintop where she lives, finding comfort in the mystery novels that keep her company—until she spots a woman who’s moved into the long-empty house across the pond.
Her neighbor, Jennifer Young, is also looking to hide. On the run from her old life, she and her four-year-old son, Milo, have moved to a quiet town where no one from her past can find her.
In Jennifer, Margaret sees both a potential companion for her loneliness and a mystery to be solved. She thinks if she says the right thing, tells the right story, Jennifer will open up, but Jennifer refuses to talk about herself, her son, his missing father, or her past. Frustrated, Margaret crosses more and more boundaries in pursuit of the truth, threatening to unravel the new life Jennifer has so painstakingly created—and reveal some secrets of her own…
From the critically acclaimed author of
The History of Us
and
The Myth of You and Me, The New Neighbor
is “a promising exploration of the secrets we all carry and our refusal to forgive ourselves” (
Publishers Weekly
).