The Exclusives
No one can hurt you more than a friend
Published on 7. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-78577-012-8 (ISBN)
Description
A heartbreaking story of friendship and betrayal - can we ever forgive the ones we love the most?
'Prep meets The Secret History meets Mean Girls - a stunning debut novel' Esther Walker, author of The Bad Mother
1996. Freya Seymour and Josephine Grey are invincible - beautiful and brilliant, the two best friends are on the cusp of Oxbridge, and the success they always dreamed they'd share.
2014. Freya gets in touch, looking for a conversation Josephine has run away from for eighteen long and tortured years.
Beginning with one ill-fated night, The Exclusives charts the agonising spiral of friendship gone wrong, the heartache and betrayal of letting down those closest to you and the poisonous possibilities of what we wouldn't do when everything we prize is placed under threat.
And in the end, as she realises she cannot run for ever, Josephine must answer one question: is it Freya she cannot face, or is it her own darkest secret?
'Utterly gripping' Esther Freud
'Compellingly dark, brilliantly gripping: Rebecca Thornton takes a scalpel to the heart of female friendship.' - Elizabeth Day, author of Scissors, Paper, Stone
'Prep meets The Secret History meets Mean Girls - a stunning debut novel' Esther Walker, author of The Bad Mother
1996. Freya Seymour and Josephine Grey are invincible - beautiful and brilliant, the two best friends are on the cusp of Oxbridge, and the success they always dreamed they'd share.
2014. Freya gets in touch, looking for a conversation Josephine has run away from for eighteen long and tortured years.
Beginning with one ill-fated night, The Exclusives charts the agonising spiral of friendship gone wrong, the heartache and betrayal of letting down those closest to you and the poisonous possibilities of what we wouldn't do when everything we prize is placed under threat.
And in the end, as she realises she cannot run for ever, Josephine must answer one question: is it Freya she cannot face, or is it her own darkest secret?
'Utterly gripping' Esther Freud
'Compellingly dark, brilliantly gripping: Rebecca Thornton takes a scalpel to the heart of female friendship.' - Elizabeth Day, author of Scissors, Paper, Stone
Reviews / Votes
Compellingly dark, brilliantly gripping: Rebecca Thornton takes a scalpel to the heart of female friendship. -- Elizabeth Day A very accomplished novel that had me eagerly turning the pages to find out exactly what happened . . . I'm looking forward to reading more from her -- The Haphazardous Hippo blog Neglecting work, household chores and husbands because I can't get my nose our of my Kindle thanks to Rebecca Thornton's brilliantly unputdownable debut novel, The Exclusives. -- 3 bad mice blog Dark. Emotional.... This is the kind of story you need to be prepared to sit down and absorb properly...if you like emotional reads that will stay with you then this comes. Highly recommended! * Buried Under Books Blog * An exploration of friendship, betrayal and the dark, disturbing, far reaching effects down the years. What emerged is something that's very, very good...We're in total suspense and want to be there at the end for the girls' sake. When the end comes, it may be tied off rather neatly, but it's an ending of just desserts and is worth every chewed nail we collect on the way. * The Bookbag *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78577-012-8 (9781785770128)
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Rebecca Thornton is an alumna of the Faber Academy Writing A Novel course, where she was tutored by Esther Freud and Tim Lott. Her writing has been published in Prospect Magazine, The Guardian, You Magazine, Daily Mail and The Sunday People, The Jewish News, amongst others. She has reported from the Middle East, Kosovo and the UK. She now lives in West London with her husband and two sons.