

A man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected…but then the unthinkable happens.Ī man is found dead in Emma’s home. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. As a woman, she knows her reputation is worth its weight in gold but as a politician, she discovers it only takes one slip-up to destroy it completely.įourteen-year-old Flora is learning the same hard lessons at school as she encounters heartless bullying.

The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal-now a hit Netflix series-returns with a new psychological thriller about a politician whose less-than-perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home.Īs a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career-including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora.Ī former teacher, the glare of the spotlight is unnerving for Emma, particularly when it leads to countless insults, threats, and trolling as she tries to work in the public eye. Superb.” -Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author “Astonishingly timely and clever, it’s also utterly gripping.” -Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author
