Working-class Rachel takes a summer job as a maid at a boutique hotel in Florence to improve her Italian prior to taking up a place at Cambridge. She gets in with the decadent ex-apt set and becomes enthralled by manipulative and cruel Diana and handsome Sebastian. The story is told twenty years later. Diana is still fabulously wealthy and now a London-based yummy mummy of three. Rachel, a teacher at a boarding school, stalks her on social media, and Sebastian is appealing against his twenty-year prison sentence for murder.
Told from Rachel's viewpoint, we slowly see how things went horribly wrong that fateful summer. and how she seems to have learnt nothing in the intervening years.
Deliciously evocative of a balmy summer in Tuscany but with a sense of menace never far away. Ideal for fans of long, slow-burn literary thrillers.
With thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an early copy in exchange for an independent review.

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Awesome.
A group of glamorous teenagers, used to a life of privilege.
Lavish parties, heady sun-soaked days, backstabbing and bedhopping.
Until someone goes too far.
And nothing will ever be the same.
It's a thought provoking novel. I liked it.
Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan for giving me an advance copy.