Keep Your Friends Close

The totally addictive, fast-paced psychological thriller

Paula Daly

- 4.3 • 54 Ratings

- £2.99

- £2.99

'The UK's answer to Liane Moriarty' Claire McGowan
'Surprises and astounds you with every ingenious twist and turn' Tess Gerritsen
'Fiendishly addictive' Guardian

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Your best friend isn't who you think she is.

You've been friends since university, when you became the people you are today.

You don't see each other enough but when you do it's as if you've never been apart.

She's one of the family. You would trust her with your life, your children, your husband.

And when your daughter is rushed to hospital, you're grateful that she's stepping in at home, looking after things.

You're about to find out just how wrong you were.
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Readers are utterly gripped by Keep Your Friends Close:

***** 'Dark and compelling . . . will keep you riveted to the last page.'
***** 'Quick paced, breath-taking and believable.'
***** 'Intense, addictive and thoroughly enjoyable.'

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 14 JUL 2014

Daly's strained sophomore effort fails to live up to her superb debut, Just What Kind of Mother Are You?. Wife, mother, and hotelier Natasha "Natty" Wainright has been friends with Eve Dalladay since university. When Natty's 14-year-old daughter, Felicity, falls ill on a school trip to France, she rushes to the girl's side, glad that Eve can help care for her family at home in England's Lake District. Ten days later, she returns to find that her husband, Sean, has fallen in love with Eve and moved with her to the Wainrights' hotel. Natty discovers that everything she believes about Eve is false; her friend survives by seducing men with money. When she rams Eve's car and Eve retaliates, Natty's own secrets are revealed in a spiral of violence that changes her family forever. Eve's unalloyed evil and Sean's extreme passivity are equally implausible. Daly's genuine gift for psychological nuance is afforded little room to shine.

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