JP Delaney

This instant New York Times bestseller, in the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife and Gone Girl, is an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune and another woman's mysterious fate through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death and deception. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass and soaring ceilings. But there are rules. The enigmatic architect who designed the house retains full control: no books, no throw pillows, no photos or clutter or personal effects of any kind. The space is intended to transform its occupant--and it does. JANE After a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start. When she finds One Folgate Street she is instantly drawn to the space--and to its aloof but seductive creator. Moving in, Jane soon learns about the untimely death of the home's previous tenant, a woman similar to Jane in age and appearance. As Jane tries to untangle truth from lies, she unwittingly follows the same patterns, makes the same choices, crosses paths with the same people and experiences the same terror, as the girl before.

A Novel

The Girl Before

ariah 

Because as soon as I see you in that dress, I'm going to want to fuck you in it.

Betty

Grief, I discovered, feels not so very different from defeat. 

I hadn't only lost a baby. I had lost a child, a teenager, a woman.

Never apologise for someone you love, he says quietly. It makes you look like a prick 

Two people coming together with no agenda other than the present.

Elizabeth was perfect in her own way, he says gently. But she's in the past now . And this is perfect too. What's happening right now with us. 

Because you've rekindled my desire to live.

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