A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story.
As children in a backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves - until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.
'Beguiling … A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation' Daily Mail
'Haunting and strange … Li has made her style her own' Tessa Hadley, Guardian
'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout' Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist
| ISBN: | 9780008531850 |
| Publication date: | 8th June 2023 |
| Author: | Yiyun Li |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 348 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Coming of age Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Interior life Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues |