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Violence
Some
Some thriller violence as the danger escalates
Language
Some
Adult language in the psychological thriller register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult content involving an extramarital encounter at the novel's center
Substance Use
Barely any
Some social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological horror of having your most shameful secret exposed — and the escalating threat that comes from it — creates the novel's sustained dread
What this book is about
Renée Knight's psychological thriller follows Catherine Ravenscroft, who finds an anonymous novel among her things that tells the story of a shameful secret from her past in lurid detail. As the novel's impact spreads to her family, the threat escalates. Knight builds dread through the dual narrative — the anonymous novel and Catherine's present — with effective psychological complexity. For adult readers of psychological thrillers.
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