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Choose your holiday read as carefully as you choose your friends... a sinister and ravishing literary thriller

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The best intentions can be deadly

During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another´s lives to devastating effect.

When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.

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"Both impossible to put down and beautifully written: a great combo" Lionel Shriver Observer Books of the Year

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Born in England, Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark and Beautiful Animals. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, Paris Dreambook and The Wet and the Dry. His short story ´Volcano´ was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012, and he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, the New Yorker, Forbes, Harper´s and other publications. He lives in Bangkok.

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