"Toxic female friendships, revenge, reinvention and the pull of privilege and power, this Edinburgh-set psychological thriller packs scandalous, page-turning punch."
Slick, shocking and suspenseful, Heather Darwent’s The Things We Do To Our Friends is the kind of psychological thriller that’ll have you reading into the wee hours, unable to extricate yourself from its intoxicating, warped web of toxic friendships and secrets. Set around a group of messed-up female students at Edinburgh University, with the city brilliantly evoked from towering spires to grimy underbelly, it’s a provocative page-turner.
Clare arrives at Edinburgh uni looking for a fresh start, but all that goes awry when beautiful, privileged, powerful Tabitha decides Clare is exactly who she needs to escalate her vengeful money-making scheme. Clare finds it impossible to resist Tabitha’s charisma and privilege — the attention, gifts and paid-for trips. It’s also hard to say no when Tabitha know something about why Clare wanted a fresh start. Then, what begins as a kind-of feminist Robin Hood mission escalates into something much more extreme just as we discover a series of shockers about Clare’s past.
Warped sisterhood, the burning pain of loneliness, the stockpiling of knowledge to use as manipulative currency, and the rotten consequences of messed-up upbringings — The Things We Do To Our Friends is an edge-of-your-seat feat.
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