Keep Your Friends Close
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4.1 • 16 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Natty and Sean Wainwright are happily married. Rock solid, in fact. So when Natty’s oldest friend, Eve Dalladay, appears—just as their daughter collapses on a school trip in France—Natty has no qualms about leaving Eve with Sean to help out at home while she flies to France to see her daughter.
When Natty returns two weeks later, Eve has slotted into family life a little too well. Natty’s husband has fallen in love with her friend. Sean’s sorry, he says, but their marriage is over. With no option but to put a brave face on things, Natty embarks on building a new life for herself.
And then she receives an anonymous note: Eve has done this before, more than once. Don’t let her take what’s yours.
It seems Natty’s friend has stolen other lives, and with fatal consequences . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
Customer Reviews
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First time I read Paula Daly great author immediately downloaded all her books and enjoyed them all
Great Book
The ending sucked!!! I was so mad with the way it ended, I want to know what happened!!! Hope you write a second book!!
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This book has moments where It was interesting but for the most part It was complete junk. Natty Wainwright and her husband have the perfect life or so she thinks until her old friend Eve sweeps In and steals her husband. The story was completely underdeveloped In the beginning, with just a couple of quick pages Eve has stolen Natty's husband. The plot was actually interesting If not one we have heard a million times before and could of been a good book, but the author seemed to speed through the important details and spend pages going on about things that were completely irrelevant to the story. I am a complete junkie when it comes to books of all kinds and it's rare for me to find a book that I don't like but this book was rubbish and if I didn't hate to leave a book unfinished I would of put it down after the first few chapters. Don't waste your time or money on this one folks.