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Soon to be an Apple TV+ series starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline
“Disclaimer is something special. . . an outstandingly clever and twisty tale that’s been perfectly engineered to make heads spin. This novel’s opening promise of menace is not overstated. Ms. Knight lives up to the initial deal she made with readers and delivers fully. . . . That’s a rare payoff in a genre full of letdowns. Its value can’t be stressed enough.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times
A brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible price we pay when we try to hide the truth.
What if you realized the terrifying book you were reading was all about you?
When a mysterious novel appears at documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft’s bedside, she is curious. She has no idea who might have sent her The Perfect Stranger—or how it ended up on her nightstand. At first, she is intrigued by the suspenseful story that unfolds. And then she realizes this isn’t fiction. The Perfect Stranger re-creates in vivid, unmistakable detail the day Catherine became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew—and that person is dead.
Now that the past Catherine so desperately wants to forget is catching up with her, her world is falling apart. Plunged into a living nightmare, her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day . . . even if the shocking truth might destroy her.
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“Knight’s deeply disturbing psychological thriller is expertly narrated by Michael Pennington and Laura Paton. Both narrators, particularly Pennington, begin with understated performances that…soon ramp up in a way that matches the story itself as layers upon layers of complexity and deception are revealed…Listeners will regret anything that takes them away from the story.”
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“Sensationally good psychological suspense…Exactly what a great thriller should be.”
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“Stealthily steals your attention and by the end holds you prisoner—a searing story that resonates long after the final page.”
— Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author -
“An addictive novel.”
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“Lives up to its unusually gripping premise…as the best of domestic noir.”
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“A seriously unnerving roller coaster…It’s also a surprisingly sophisticated examination of marriage, motherhood, and memory, as well as—naturally—guilt, grief, and revenge.”
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“A mysterious book within a book…This unsettling psychological thriller about guilt and grief briskly moves to a shocking finale enhanced by its strong characters.”
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“This debut British psychological thriller engages the reader from page one; mystery aficionados will dash to finish it in one sitting. Deliciously captivating, brilliantly twisty, and enticingly addictive, it hits the trifecta for a strong thriller!”
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“Knight plays with our allegiances in this juicy domestic noir.”
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“This is a good psychological thriller…with lots of family drama.”
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“A page-turner. An addictive psychological thriller.”
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“A terrific novel with a brilliantly creepy central premise.”
— Paula Daly, author of What Kind of Mother Are You?
Awards
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A New York Times Pick of Best Summer Reads of 2015
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
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About Renée Knight
Renée Knight worked for the BBC directing arts documentaries before turning to writing. She has had television and film scripts commissioned by the BBC, Channel Four, and Capital Films. She is a graduate of the Faber Academy “Writing a Novel” course, whose alumni include S. J. Watson.
About the Narrators
Laura Paton trained at LAMDA where she won the St. Philip’s Prize for poetry and the Michael Warre Award. She has toured the UK extensively in productions as varied as The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. Among her audiobook recordings are Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Dumas’ The Lady of the Camellias, and Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
Michael Pennington is a British director and actor who has played many leading parts for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and his own English Shakespeare Company. He has appeared as Richard Strauss and Wilhelm Furtwangler in Ronald Harwood’s Collaboration and Taking Sides in the West End and performed two solo shows on Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare. Although primarily a stage actor, Pennington has also appeared in film, most notably as Moff Jerjerrod in Return of the Jedi and as Michael Foot in The Iron Lady. He is also the author of Hamlet: A User’s Guide, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A User’s Guide, and Are You There, Crocodile? Inventing Anton Chekhov.