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""Vaughan is simply a genius at immersing you in simmering tensions and turning up the heat.""--Ellery Lloyd""A stunning novel.""--Gilly Macmillan""A flawlessly constructed thriller, perfectly paced and filled with smart reveals. This is a read-in-one-sitting delight of a novel!""--Lucy ClarkeA compelling novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal. All families have secrets. But it's the lies that can kill.A lavish seventieth birthday party. A body found on a storm-lashed beach. And a secret that someone is dying to tell... . Famed children's author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family and friends to her exquisite manor house on the cliffs. They're celebrating her birthday--and her latest number one bestseller in her series of books based on a mother fox and her cubs.But the night before the party, Eleanor receives an email that threatens to expose the lie she's kept up for over half a century.Someone knows her secret. Is it her estranged literary agent? Is it her ex-husband, to whom she no longer speaks? Is it the nanny she fired all those years ago, who always did have a knack for storytelling? Or is it one of her three daughters, all of whom have a stake in the publishing empire she has built...With a television crew arriving to film a documentary of her life, Eleanor needs to find out who sent the email--and preserve her legacy and multimillion-pound career.But when push comes to shove, and it's time to tell the truth will anyone actually believe her?

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Sarah Vaughan is the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, Little Disasters and Reputation, plus two earlier novels. Translated into 26 languages, Anatomy of a Scandal became a Richard & Judy Book of the Decade and a global number one Netflix limited series. Little Disasters became a number one Paramount Plus series, while Reputation is being developed for TV. Before writing fiction, Sarah spent 15 years as a journalist, including 11 at the Guardian as a political correspondent and news reporter. Brought up in Devon, she lives near Cambridge, England with her family. Juliet Stevenson is a narrator who is recipient of the AudioFile Golden Voice Award. She has won the prestigious Audie Award and numerous Earphones Awards for her narrations. She is a British actress on stage and screen and notably a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has also appeared in popular films such as Bend It Like Beckham and Mona Lisa Smile. She was honored as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. She received further recognition when she was nominated for several BAFTA Awards, and she earned an Olivier Award for her role in Death and the Maiden.

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