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Darcey Bell

A Simple Favor

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Soon to be a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding, and directed by Paul Feig
«Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent and the fallacy of the picture-perfect, suburban family.»—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author
She’s your best friend.
She knows all your secrets.
That’s why she’s so dangerous.
A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.
It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together—just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR executive whose job in Manhattan demands so much of her time.
But Emily doesn’t come back. She doesn’t answer calls or return texts. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong—Emily would never leave Nicky, no matter what the police say. Terrified, she reaches out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the handsome, reticent Sean, offering emotional support. It’s the least she can do for her best friend. Then, she and Sean receive shocking news. Emily is dead. The nightmare of her disappearance is over.
Or is it? Because soon, Stephanie will begin to see that nothing—not friendship, love, or even an ordinary favor—is as simple as it seems.
A Simple Favor is a remarkable tale of psychological suspense—a clever and twisting free-fall of a ride filled with betrayals and reversals, twists and turns, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge. Darcey Bell masterfully ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing story that holds you in its grip until the final page.

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330 printed pages
Publication year
2017
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  • Jovana Antićshared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    🌴Beach Bag Book
    🚀Unputdownable

    Svi bismo želeli da vodimo život poput Emili, a zapravo smo više nalik Stefani. Obe junakinje su psihički nestabilne, podložne slatkim malim lažima, dok se stvari ne otrgnu kontroli. Ali Emili ipak drži sve konce u rukama? Teške životne priče praćene tragedijama i nesrećnim detinjstvima glavnih junakinja, koje vuku posledice takvog života do poslednje stranice knjige. Koliko zapravo poznajemo ljude oko sebe, pa i sebe same? Ova knjiga otkriva da stvari skoro nikada nisu onakve kakvima se čine. Koliko nesreća i boli izazovemo iz puke dosade? Svi mi imamo svoje tajne, samo što neke koštaju života.

    9/10

  • ikhvostenkovshared an impression6 years ago
    👎Give This a Miss
    💩Utter Crap
    💤Borrrriiinnng!

    What. A. Shit.

  • Lola Lobashared an impression6 years ago
    🚀Unputdownable

    I wanted more.

Quotes

  • Nadya Krupnovahas quoted6 years ago
    You’d be amazed by what people will do. Things they’d never admit to anyone—not even to themselves
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted5 years ago
    We all wish for what we don’t have.
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted5 years ago
    It’s such a great feeling: letting go, after you’ve been keeping things bottled up inside for so long. To know that there is someone who will understand and not judge.

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