LoveReading Says
If you’re a fan of gasp-inducing fiction driven by morally dodgy characters and domestic bliss gone wrong, Disha Bose’s Dirty Laundry should move to the top of your reading list. Entertaining, easy to read and suspenseful, it simmers with the dissatisfaction, desires and deceptions of its messed-up suburban characters before exploding — big-style.
After becoming Insta-famous and (secretly) wealthy from her six-step skincare regimen, Ciara “had everything a woman could desire — children and skincare expertise”. Of course, that’s anything but true. Ciara desires a whole lot more than that and, in reality, her house is a tip, her husband never asks how she is, and her four-year-old daughter has a habit of “acting like a bitch”. At least her legion of followers and the women in her village still hang off her every post. Well, everyone except Lauren.
Lauren could do with her partner being less flaky, less adulterous, and getting a job. Largely thanks to Ciara, she’s an outcast, judged by other mothers for her free-spirited approach to raising her children. Then there’s downtrodden Mishti, who wishes she’d followed her heart and eloped with her teenage love rather than agree to an arranged marriage with Parth, which has left her “falling into a black hole” in a country she never wanted to move to.
Early on, a shock scene presents Ciara’s dead body, and the narrative slips to events that led to the death, while also skipping back to the women’s pasts. There are lies, liaisons, and full-on affairs. There are frustrations, longings and anything but sisterly support, and the men are hardly bastions of decency, either. All of which means Dirty Laundry will thoroughly entertain readers who love the scandal and thrill of twisting stories about dirty suburban secrets.
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Dirty Laundry Synopsis
SECRETS, DESIRE, BLOOD... It all comes out in the wash
'A twisty tale of love gone wrong' Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I
'Lethal, entertaining with characters you'll love to hate' Darby Kane, Pretty Little Wife
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Keep your friends close and your neighbours closer...
Ciara has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children and an immaculate home. But behind the filters, her reality is far from what it seems.
Mishti is stuck in a loveless marriage, raising her daughter in a country that is too cold, among children who look nothing like her.
Lauren is mostly happy, despite being judged for letting her kids run naked, wild and free.
Then Ciara is found murdered in her pristine home and suddenly everyone is a suspect.
Hushed whispers, secret rendezvous and bloody betrayals . . .
Everyone has their dirty laundry, but this goes beyond gossip.
This is all-out war.
A deliciously scandalous page-turner about the dark side of suburbia that peels back the layers of Ciara's insta-perfect life to reveal friendships gone rotten, manipulation masquerading as love and families riddled with lies . . .
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'Bose masterfully creates deeply drawn and utterly human characters in this powerful suspense debut' Liv Constantine, The Last Mrs Parrish
'A delicious take on people behaving badly' Darby Kane, Pretty Little Wife
'With deep dark secrets and twisted webs of lies, Dirty Laundry is everything I want in a book - Desperate Housewives in a small-town setting, each turn in the story even better than the last' Andrea Mara, All Her Fault
'A riveting debut, and Bose is a writer to watch' Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I
'Extraordinary! Absolutely compelling, original and intriguing. Domestic noir at its very finest' Liz Nugent, Unraveling Oliver
'Disha writes stunning prose and her characters jump off the page. A devastating examination of what lies beneath, and how we can never truly leave our past behind' Nikki Smith, Look What You Made Me Do
'Real Housewives fans will devour this debut that simmers with discontent and deceit' Liz Alterman, The Perfect Neighborhood
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780241995020 |
| Publication date: |
18th January 2024 |
| Author: |
Disha Bose |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
309 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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