The Sequel
The wildly twisty and devilishly clever new thriller from the bestselling author of The Plot. ‘Insanely readable.’ Stephen King.
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If you liked The Plot . . .
‘Insanely readable.’ Stephen King
‘Breathtakingly suspenseful.’ Megan Abbott
‘Smart, surprising and stealthily unsettling.‘ The Times
‘So clever, so taut, so dazzling.’ Lisa Jewell
. . . You’ll love The Sequel.
The wildly twisty and devilishly clever new thriller from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plot.
Not many first-time novelists get a profile in the New York Times. Then again, few first-time novelists come with the backstory of Anna Williams-Bonner: recent bride of a wildly successful writer who took his own life even as his fame seemed on the ascent. Anna’s book is climbing the bestseller lists. But when someone leaves a cryptic note for her at a book signing, she realises that not all the attention is positive. For years, Anna’s been keeping secrets about her past: what if someone knows the truth? She will do anything to keep what she values most: the right to her own story.
Sequels are notoriously tricky. Even the characters in The Sequel acknowledge it. “They’re never as good as the first book, are they?" . . . Well, this one is. By shifting the focus to Anna, Korelitz gives the novel what many sequels lack: a sense of newness. While the story grows more intricate, she remains in control. Her plot - ha! - is propulsive, her prose precise.
Korelitz fans will eat up this satirical, bookish suspense.
Mixing dark wit with cold-blooded suspense . . . an unforgettable tour through the life and mind of a homicidal protagonist.
Korelitz presents a compelling and worthy sequel, another rip-roaring thriller full of very amusing scenes of delusional writers and their awful prose and many twists and turns.
Remarkable.
Breathtakingly suspenseful.
Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the bestselling author of the novels A Jury Of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The White Rose, Admission, and most recently the New York Times bestseller You Should Have Known, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for…
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