Before the ruins: a novel
β Scribed by Victoria Gosling
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, New York
- ISBN
- 1250783518
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Named a Best New Book of 2021 (so far) by Real Simple
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub and Bustle**
A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt about four friends, an empty manor, and a night that will follow them for the rest of their lives**
It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David--charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere.
David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates the dynamics of their lifelong friendship. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen fifty years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game--half treasure hunt, half...
β¦ Subjects
Lost and found possessions -- Fiction
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