Our Kind of Game

Author : Johanna Copeland

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 9 July 2024

ISBN : 9780063396104

Price : €23.39

Description

A riveting and suspenseful debut. Copelands contemporary take on the balance of power in relationships, and the desire for control, is not to be missed.New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Karin Slaughter

A gifted new suspense writer makes her sizzling debut with this serpentine tale exploring all the ways in which men enact violence on women, how women try to reclaim their own sense of self, and the lingering effects on their childrens lives.

2019. Stella Parker has the life shes always wanted: a loving husband, two happy children that she gave up her thriving law career to raise, and a beautiful house in the tony suburbs of Washington, DC. But when her neighbor Gwen shows up at her door, claiming to know things about her, Stellas life is thrown into turmoil and shes forced to reckon with the dark secret upon which shes built her life.

1987. Julie Waits yearns to be a cheerleadera gateway to a world of normalcy with best friends and sleepovers, and an escape hatch from life with her widowed mother, the terrible men she attracts, and the upheaval caused by their abrupt and constant moves. But when her mother decides those relationships are over, the past becomes a forbidden subject that Julie can never revisit.

As Stella probes deeper into what brought Gwen to her door, the answerand who Julie is to herbecome increasingly, terrifyingly, clear.

Filled with shocking twists and turns, this is a book that both asks what it means for a woman to be in control of her life while also highlighting the impact of small daily violences upon women, and the connection between physical and psychological harm.

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