The Wild OneAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 14 June 2022
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Addictive from its first pages, Colleen McKeegans The Wild One mines all the complexities and darkness of young women in the battleground of summer camp, fashioning a riveting tale of secrets, shame and a harrowing reckoning.New York Times bestselling authorMegan Abbott
I couldn't put down this smart and astute page-turning debut. Colleen McKeegan has beautifully crafted a narrative that explores the ways trauma and societal expectations shape the women we become. The engaging prose and razor-sharp twists and turns will keep readers on the edges of their seats until the very last page.Jo Piazza, internationally bestselling author of Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win and We Are Not Like Them
In this dark and twisted coming-of-age thriller, a deadly childhood secret that binds three young women threatens to destroy their lives.
Amanda Brooks is a born-and-bred New Yorker with an envious life: shes in a great graduate school program, lives in a cozy Tribeca apartment, and is head-over-heels for her handsome, committed boyfriend. But Amandas life isnt as picture perfect as it seems. For over a decade shes been hiding a dark secreta secret that goes back to that summer at Camp Catalpa when a man died in the woods. Fellow campers Catherine and Meg were there too, and in the years since, not one of them has ever spoken about what happened that day.
Until Amanda slipsand the truth threatens to explode the tightly controlled faade of her life.
When her past begins to poison her present, threatening her relationship, Amanda has no one to turn to except the two women who know her most monstrous self. Reuniting with Catherine and Meg one last time, Amanda is desperate to put the demons of that twisted summer to rest.
But when trusting anyone, even one another, starts to feel like a wildly risky proposition, just how far will these three go to keep the truth from emergingand their lives from unraveling?
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