Loyalties by Delphine de Vigan

Following the triumph of her worldwide best-seller Based on a True Story, the award-winning novelist's latest work weaves a gripping story with four stories of secrets, obsessions, and loyalties. Pick No and Me comes from the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club. In this fascinating investigation of the damaging secrets and loyalties maintained behind closed doors, adults are as lost as the children they should be safeguarding.' It packs a powerful emotional blow. It reminded me of Leila Slimani's excellent Lullaby' Bookseller'. Narration that packs a punch and moves at a breakneck pace.

'You're kept reading hopelessly until the frantic cliffhanger end,' says the Daily Mail. Théo, thirteen, and his pal Mathis share a secret. Hélène, their instructor, senses something is wrong with Théo and becomes preoccupied with saving him, abandoning her professionalism to the point of no return. Cécile, Mathis's mother, discovers something horrible on her husband's computer, leading her to wonder if she has ever actually known him. Respectable facades are torn away as the four stories wound together tighter and tighter, becoming a slim and darkly riveting story of loneliness, deceit, and loyalty.

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