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If Ashley Winstead’s The Last Housewife were a movie, it might come with some serious warnings. This twisted thriller starts off dark, and just gets darker and darker as a woman who’s built a new life for herself with a wealthy husband confronts appalling events from her college days, and finds herself returning to a web of cultish misogyny during a crusade for justice.
Back in college, Shay and a few of her friends were captivated by an older man, and manipulated by his foul, misogynist take on how the world should be. While she and her friend Laurel managed to escape his cruel clutches, eight years on, Shay hears of Laurel’s death from her favourite crime podcaster, Jamie.
Stirred by the news, Shay leaves her husband back in suburban Texas and embarks on a perilous battle to uncover the truth of Laurel’s death, with Jamie on hand as a fellow investigator. The journey she takes into a cult of predatory wealthy men who abuse women unleashes disturbing emotions and behaviours from her past.
With in-your-face coverage of issues around complicity and conditioning, The Last Housewife sets out to show how far manipulatively abusive men might go for power, and how hard it is to escape past trauma.
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The Last Housewife Synopsis
From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost.
While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works, bringing them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now, eight years later, Shay’s built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel’s death?delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader?she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more dangerous than ever.
Recruiting the help of the podcast host, Shay goes back to the place she vowed never to return to in search of answers. As she follows the threads of her friend’s life, she’s pulled into a dark, seductive world, where wealth and privilege shield brutal philosophies that feel all too familiar. When Shay’s obsession with uncovering the truth becomes so consuming she can no longer separate her desire for justice from darker desires newly reawakened, she must confront the depths of her own complicity and conditioning. But in a world built for men to rule it—both inside the cult and outside of it—is justice even possible, and if so, how far will Shay go to get it?
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9798212005210 |
Publication date: |
16th August 2022 |
Author: |
Ashley Winstead |
Publisher: |
Blackstone Publishing |
Format: |
Audiobook |
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Crime and Mystery
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About Ashley Winstead
Ashley Winstead is an academic turned novelist with a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature. She lives in Houston with her husband, two cats, and beloved wine fridge. You can find her at www.ashleywinstead.com
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