Dear Future Me
A compulsively gripping, slow-burn thriller of long buried secrets just waiting to be revealed . . .
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Publisher Description
'THE PERFECT BOOK GROUP THRILLER' Gillian McAllister
'CAPTIVATING' T.M. Logan
Everyone held their secrets close. Then the letters begin to arrive . . .
Twenty years ago, a group of students each wrote themselves a letter - Dear Future Me - confiding their deepest dreams and their very darkest secrets.
Now the letters, thought long discarded, have begun to drop through letterboxes. For some they will make them re-evaluate the decisions they've made, the person they could have been.
For others, the letters could be deadly . . .
A compulsively gripping thriller of regret, hidden secrets and the deepest betrayal, Dear Future Me is the unmissable new book from the lauded author of The Dangerous Kind and The Captive.
'THIS IS A WINNER' Publishers Weekly
'A PROPER PAGE-TURNER' Emma Rous
'COMPULSIVE' Northern Life
'A TAUTLY EXECUTED NOVEL OF FRIENDSHIP, BETRAYAL AND SECRECY' L.V. Matthews
'THIS THRILLER WILL CAPTIVATE YOU UNTIL THE LAST PAGE' Candis
'DEAR FUTURE READER, THIS BOOK MAY KEEP YOU UP PAST YOUR BEDTIME' Jo Furniss
'A FANTASTIC CONCEPT' Claire McGowan
'I RACED THROUGH THIS BOOK' Lisa Gray
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
O'Connor (The Captive) debuts with an enthralling dual-timeline mystery that links two tragedies, 20 years apart. In 2003, a teacher in the seaside English town of Saltburn, North Yorkshire, asks his sixth-form students to write letters to their future selves after 17-year-old Ben Spellman dies accidentally on a class trip to the Lake District. Twenty years later, the students receive their old letters. The same day, Miranda Breivart is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. The police believe her death is a suicide, but her close friend Audrey—whose dreams of attending Cambridge fell through and who now works as a house cleaner for some of her wealthy former classmates—suspects foul play. Realizing only she cares enough to learn the truth, Audrey launches an investigation that soon casts doubt both on Ben's long-ago death and the peaceful facade of a town she thought she knew. Early on, O'Connor writes that aspirations can be "a weight around your neck from which you can never wriggle free," and she explores that idea to its fullest, with Audrey's quest taking on a poignant, tragic quality from its first moments. Themes of moral relativism and class difference are equally well developed. This is a winner.
