Whipsmart and uncompromising NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWQuietly riveting IRISH TIMESIts the perfect crime NEW YORKERImpressive and complex GUARDIANAddictive OPRAH DAILYThe riveting new novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalias death and the conviction of the schools athletics coach, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, Bodie prefersneedsto let sleeping dogs lie. But when The Granby School invites her back to teach a twoweek course, Bodie finds herself inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasnt as much of an outsider at Granby as shed thoughtif, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case. One of the most acclaimed contemporary American writers, Rebecca Makkai reinvents herself with each of her brilliant novels. Both a transfixing mystery and a deeply felt examination of one womans reckoning with her past,...

Binding: Paperback;448 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 472 g; Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 30

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