All These Beautiful Strangers
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4.6 • 15 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
Beneath the glittering heights of the rich and powerful, lie secrets that can destroy them all...
The perfect summer beach read, for fans of Cruel Intentions, The Secret History and One of Us is Lying.
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Charlie Calloway has a life most people would kill for. A tight knit family. A loyal set of friends. A fast-track to whichever college she chooses.
But Charlie isn't interested in what most people want.
She's a Calloway. She's special. And she's been taught to want more.
So when she's invited to join an exclusive secret society, her determination to get in is matched only by her conviction that she belongs there.
But behind their mysterious facade is a history of lies which unravels everything Charlie thought she knew... including the story behind her mother's disappearance ten years ago.
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Praise for All These Beautiful Strangers:
'A gripping thriller where secrets of the past and present stir in the shadows. I was drawn in from the start and couldn't wait to discover the truth. A real page-turner!' - Kate Ormand, author of The Wanderers
'What you would get if you combined The Secret History with Cruel Intentions with Luckiest Girl Alive...this is going to be big' - Entertainment Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Did Grace Fairchild simply walk away from her Cinderella life as the wife of a blueblood New York real estate billionaire as suggested by bank surveillance footage showing her cleaning out the couple's safe deposit boxes days before she disappeared or did something more sinister happen? A decade later, the question haunts Grace's 17-year-old daughter, Charlie, the appealingly acerbic narrator of Klehfoth's engrossing if flawed debut. Now a junior at Knollwood Augustus Prep, the New Hampshire boarding school her father attended, whip-smart Charlie is beginning the pledging process for an ultra-exclusive secret society, the A's. As the high-stakes initiation game tests Charlie's loyalties and values, she discovers some explosive family history challenging almost everything she has grown up believing about her parents. Unfortunately, the author's plotting fails to measure up to her ingenious amateur sleuth, relying throughout on colossal coincidences and ending with a denouement that's surprising primarily for its implausibility. Still, Klehfoth's ability to draw in the reader shows that she's an author to watch.
