Title: Keep You Close
Author: Lucy Whitehouse
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Genre: Literary Fiction / Suspense
Genre: Literary Fiction / Suspense
How far would you go
to protect the people you love?
The day Marianne Glass falls to her death, Rowan Winter hasn't spoken to her in ten years. Yet Rowan knows it couldn't have been an accident as everyone insists. Marianne, once her closest friend, had paralyzing vertigo: she would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.
Marianne--and the whole Glass family--once meant everything to Rowan. For a teenage girl, motherless with a much-absent father, this warm, lively family represented a world of opportunity. And in large-hearted, feminist Jacqueline Glass, Rowan found the mother she longed for.
But Rowan knows little of Marianne's adult life, which she must now investigate if she wishes to know the truth of her death. Her search takes her from Bohemian east London to the polished professional art world where Marianne made her name as a painter. She encounters a trio of men in mourning: James Emory, Marianne's gallerist and boyfriend; Peter Turk, a one-hit-wonder singer who had long pined for her; and an American portraitist with at least one other dead woman in his past. And Rowan again becomes entangled with the Glasses: Jacqueline and her relationship-guru husband, Seb, and Adam, Marianne's gentle brother.
But the deeper Rowan goes, the more sinister everything seems. And a truth from the past only Rowan knows makes her worry about her own fate . . .
The day Marianne Glass falls to her death, Rowan Winter hasn't spoken to her in ten years. Yet Rowan knows it couldn't have been an accident as everyone insists. Marianne, once her closest friend, had paralyzing vertigo: she would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.
Marianne--and the whole Glass family--once meant everything to Rowan. For a teenage girl, motherless with a much-absent father, this warm, lively family represented a world of opportunity. And in large-hearted, feminist Jacqueline Glass, Rowan found the mother she longed for.
But Rowan knows little of Marianne's adult life, which she must now investigate if she wishes to know the truth of her death. Her search takes her from Bohemian east London to the polished professional art world where Marianne made her name as a painter. She encounters a trio of men in mourning: James Emory, Marianne's gallerist and boyfriend; Peter Turk, a one-hit-wonder singer who had long pined for her; and an American portraitist with at least one other dead woman in his past. And Rowan again becomes entangled with the Glasses: Jacqueline and her relationship-guru husband, Seb, and Adam, Marianne's gentle brother.
But the deeper Rowan goes, the more sinister everything seems. And a truth from the past only Rowan knows makes her worry about her own fate . . .
TO PURCHASE A COPY
Lucie Whitehouse was born in Gloucestershire in
1975, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
She is the author of The House at Midnight, the TV Book Club pick The Bed I
Made and Before We Met, which was a Richard & Judy Summer Book Club pick
and an ITV3 Crime Thriller selection. Keep You Close is her fourth novel.CONNECT WITH LUCIE: facebook, twitter
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I have young grandkids that live across the street. We have diligently told them about looking up and down the street before crossing to our house.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to remind my diabetic husband to get check-ups to keep healthy and safe for me.
I pray daily for my loved ones.
ReplyDeleteI pray for God to protect and guide them <3
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All the usual things.....keep a vigilant eye on sharp things, hot things, dangerous things. Try to instruct.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a fantastic read, but not one I should pick up just before bed.
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I make sure my husband takes his medicine diligently, and I pray for all my family.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure how I feel about physiological thrillers lol! I don't do so good with suspense. Haha
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