Pretty Is

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Pub Date 2 Jul 2015 | Archive Date 29 Feb 2016

Description

An enthralling portrait of two haunted young women, this dark, cleaver debut explores the very nature of survival.

Lois and Carly-May are just twelve years old when they're abducted, driven across the country, and imprisoned in a remote, isolated hunting lodge for two months. That summer, under the watchful gaze of their kidnapper, they form a bond which will never be broken . . .

Decades later, both Lois and Carly-May have built new lives and identities for themselves. Lois, a professor of literature, is shaken when an obsessive student reminds her of the man who kidnapped her, a man she saw shoot himself on the porch twenty years before.

Out in LA, Carly-May is drinking too much and watching her beauty-queen looks fade, clinging to the last remnants of a once-promising career as an actress. When she reads a shockingly familiar screenplay, she warily she takes a role she knows is based on events from her own life.

Increasingly haunted by the devastating experience that shaped both their lives, Lois and Carly-May are drawn together again in a world that both echoes and falsifies their beautiful, terrible story.

An enthralling portrait of two haunted young women, this dark, cleaver debut explores the very nature of survival.

Lois and Carly-May are just twelve years old when they're abducted, driven across...

Advance Praise

‘The best book of its kind since Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin . . . a real thriller of a novel that will keep you up all night.’ - Fay Weldon, author of Habits of the House

‘A daring psychological thriller. I could not turn the pages fast enough. A wickedly good debut novel.’ - Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Rumor and Barefoot

‘Mitchell's fresh, spectacular, and bristly heroines illuminate this story of a crime survived.’ - Amity Gaige, author of Schroder: A Novel

Intriguing and suspenseful, surprising and smart . . . a riveting drama that stays with the reader long after the last page is turned.' - Jessica Treadway, author of Lacy Eye

‘A unique book, with lucid prose and compelling frankness about an emotional taboo few writers dare to give voice to.’ - Margaux Fragoso, author of Tiger, Tiger

Pretty Is announces an exceptional new voice in fiction. By turns poignant, funny, and terrifying.’ - Leslie Daniels, author of Cleaning Nabokov’s House

‘The best book of its kind since Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin . . . a real thriller of a novel that will keep you up all night.’ - Fay Weldon, author of Habits of the House

‘A daring...


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