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Fragile

By: Sarah Hilary

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Paperback | 20 January 2022

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400 Pages

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19.7 x 12.9 x 2.9

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‘Stunning’
– Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups

‘Chilling’
– Val McDermid, author of The Wire in the Blood

Fragile is a modern Gothic psychological thriller with a contemporary twist on the classic novel Rebecca, from award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Sarah Hilary.

Everything she touches breaks . . .

Nell Ballard is a runaway.

A former foster child with a dark secret she is desperate to keep, all Nell wants is to find a place she can belong.

So when a position comes up at Starling Villas, home to the enigmatic Robin Wilder, she seizes the opportunity with both hands.

But her new lodgings may not be the safe haven she was hoping for. Her employer has secrets of his own and lives by a rigid set of rules she must abide by.

But is Nell’s arrival at the Villas really the coincidence it seems? After all, she knows more than most how fragile people can be – and how easy they are to break . . .

About the Author

Sarah Hilary’s debut novel, Someone Else’s Skin, won the 2015 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and was a World Book Night selection. The Observer’s Book of the Month (‘superbly disturbing’) and a Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller, it has been published worldwide. No Other Darkness, the second in the series, was shortlisted for a Barry Award in the U.S. Her D.I. Marnie Rome series continues with Tastes Like Fear, Quieter Than Killing, Come and Find Me, and Never Be Broken. Fragile is her first standalone novel.

Industry Reviews

‘Perfectly plotted, beautifully written modern Gothic. I absolutely loved it’
– Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said

‘Beautifully crafted, smart and unsettling’
– Mick Herron, author of Slow Horses

‘A dark, mesmeric fever-dream of a book’
– Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10

‘Ingenious, original and brilliant’
– Will Dean, author of Red Snow

‘Extraordinary’
–Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London

‘A modern-day Highsmith’
– Steve Cavanagh, author of Thirteen

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