Michelle Sacks

A gripping page-turner for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship. Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place. Merry adores the domestic life: baking, gardening, caring for her infant son. Sam, formerly an academic, is pursuing a new career as a filmmaker. Sometimes they can hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they've built. When Merry's childhood friend Frank visits their Swedish paradise, she immediately becomes part of the family. She bonds with Conor. And with Sam. She befriends the neighbors, and even finds herself embracing the domesticity she's always seemed to scorn. All their lives, Frank and Merry have been more like sisters than best friends. And that's why Frank soon sees the things others might miss. Treacherous things, which are almost impossible to believe when looking at this perfect family. But Frank, of all people, knows that the truth is rarely what you want the world to see.

You Were Made for This

In the tradition of Room and The Lovely Bones, an unforgettable young girl goes on a road trip adventure through the American south with her dad-- but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead. Dolly is 7 years old. Her number-one all-time most-best friend is her stuffed horse, Clemesta. One sunny Saturday morning, Dad sweeps them both up into his arms and carries them off on a week-long road-trip adventure. Destination: the most special place ever! The first days on the road are incredibly exciting. Dolly has never been allowed to miss school, or gone on a cross-country trip, or had Dad all to herself. They stop along the way for milkshakes and shopping sprees and a theme park. They get to sleep in motels, eat junk food, and watch cartoons on TV. But as they get farther from home, Clemesta begins to whisper things in Dolly's ear. Things like, "We need to eat some vegetables," and "When do we get to see Mom?" As much as Dolly doesn't want to spoil the adventure, even she has to admit that things aren't quite right. Dad is acting strange, and sometimes scary, and he seems to think that someone might be following them.

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Dark Path

A bold, sharp, gripping debut about a couple whose perfect life in the Swedish countryside is not what it seems... In an idyllic house in a Swedish wood, Merry and her husband are building their new dream life with their young baby, far away from events that overshadowed their old life in New York. And they're happy, aren't they? Blissfully, blissfully happy. When Merry's childhood friend Frances comes to stay, Frances barely recognises her old friend Merry, pureeing baby food, baking, living the Swedish dream. But little by little, cracks begin to show in her carefully constructed fairy tale. And Frances starts to see things others might miss. Dark and treacherous things. And then a terrible tragedy unfolds...

Se perguntarem a sua versão da história, você vai contar a verdade. Ou não? Sam Hurley, professor, e sua esposa Merry, cenógrafa, trocam os confortos de Nova York por um estilo de vida completamente diferente em uma casinha isolada na Suécia. Apesar do quadro idílico que o casal com um bebê recém-nascido em paisagens de contos de fada representa, problemas com raízes muito profundas ameaçam o relacionamento. Sam, que nunca contou à esposa que na verdade foi demitido da universidade, também mente sobre seu dia a dia na nova cidade. Merry, por sua vez, sempre escuta do marido que nasceu para ser dona de casa, mas não sabe o que fazer com o ódio que alimenta por todas as tarefas cotidianas: a jardinagem sem-fim, a arrumação da casa, o preparo de refeições para a família e os cuidados com um bebê que por ora só parece dar trabalho. O instável equilíbrio da família se perde por completo com a visita da melhor amiga de Merry, a glamourosa Frank. Ela conhece Merry muito bem, conhece sua história, e agora, com a proximidade, é capaz de ver quem Sam realmente é. Mas Frank tem os próprios segredos, e, à medida que sua narrativa se junta à história do casal, fica claro que ela sofre pelos próprios pecados e talvez não seja capaz – ou não queira – salvar ninguém. Você nasceu para isso retrata a escuridão que há no cerne dos relacionamentos mais íntimos. Sem heróis e permeada por uma teia de segredos, obsessão e inveja, é um relato violento de vidas que quase nunca são o que parecem e das partes de nós que não somos capazes de admitir.

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‘A chilling, gut-wrenching thriller’ Helen Fields ’Extremely scary scandi-noir...first class’ Daily Mail The perfect wife. The perfect mother. The perfect lie.

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