Necessary People Audiobook

Quotes

• “Deceptively nuanced and impossible to put down, this is escapism with substance.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Gripping..Pitoniak delivers a pitch-perfect exploration of class, family, and female friendship.”

  — People

• “A juicy, all-too-familiar tale.”

  — Good Housekeeping

• “A chilling mix of charm, danger, suspense, and surprises.”

  — Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

• “Thrilling.”

  — Marie Claire

• “What begins as a sharp story about best friends…develops into a darker tale of rivalry, hubris, and deadly desire.”

  — Town and Country

• “Fantastic…This stirring character study and treatise on the dark sides of ambition, friendship, family, and privilege will hook readers from the get-go.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Sheer pleasure…A twisting delight with a haunting punch. Deceptively nuanced, and impossible to put down, this is escapism with substance.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• That book-blurb saying 'I couldn't put it down' is usually bullshit, right? For me it was true of Anna Pitoniak's Necessary People. I literally couldn't stop reading. Murder, ambition, toxic friendship. What's not to like?

  — Stephen King

• A chilling mix of charm, danger, suspense and surprises...You think you know where this book is going--but you don't.

  — Lee Child

• Gripping... Pitoniak delivers a pitch-perfect exploration of class, family, and female friendship.

  — People, Book of the Week

• I started reading Necessary People two hours ago and I am absolutely spellbound. I love a book that is smart as hell and impossible to put down and this is IT.

  — Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister

• Delicious...Thrilling...I was so mesmerized by this story that I took the longer subway route more than once so I'd have more time to savor it.

  — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire (Best Women's Fiction of 2019 So Far)

• Pitoniak's riveting and gripping novel nails the big personalities, intense competition and high drama of TV newsrooms. I was sucked in by the dark friendship of these two ambitious women, and did not see the final twist coming!

  — Alisyn Camerota, anchor of CNN's New Day and author of Amanda Wakes Up

• Smart and stylish...Pitoniak creates a compelling world of haves and have-nots that plays out in the cutthroat world of cable news. What begins as a sharp story about best friends--one who's had everything handed to her, the other who has almost ruthlessly made her own way--develops into a darker tale of rivalry, hubris, and deadly desire.

  — Town and Country

• A juicy thriller that will make you side-eye your friends and wonder if they're capable of doing crimes.

  — Cosmopolitan, Best Book of the Month

• A delicious story about the ambitions that can lift us up or tear us apart.

  — Mehera Bonner, Woman's Day

• What we love is that it's a story...you can escape into...Let's just say not everyone plays nice-and it's thrilling.

  — Goop

• Utterly enthralling...An escapist thriller laced with substantive social commentary. A no-guilt guilty pleasure.

  — Elena Nicolaou, Refinery29

• In college, quiet Violet lives in the shadow of party girl Stella. When they're adults, Violet comes into her own as a TV producer, sparking Stella's jealousy. A juicy, all-too-familiar tale.

  — Good Housekeeping

• Psychologically astute...Pitoniak's spot-on portraits of these two women come together in a gripping novel that's sure to be a popular summer read.

  — Deborah Donovan, BookPage

• A complex, sharply written novel of female friendship and competition. Everything I want from a novel and more. Rife with plot twists and rich with insights, this is a book that will leave you desperate for whatever Anna Pitoniak writes next.

  — Julie Buntin, author of Marlena

• Propulsive...Pitoniak's prose keeps a quick pace, and her characters and the TV-news setting ring true...Hand this to readers who like books exploring the dark side of female friendships, à la Megan Abbott.

  — Kathy Sexton, Booklist

• Sheer pleasure...A twisting delight with a haunting punch. Deceptively nuanced, and impossible to put down, this is escapism with substance.

  — Kirkus (Starred Review)

• Fantastic...This stirring character study and treatise on the dark sides of ambition, friendship, family, and privilege will hook readers from the get-go.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)