A Good Neighbourhood
The instant New York Times bestseller about star-crossed love...
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***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
'There's no doubting this novel's power' Daily Mail
'A feast of a read' Jodi Picoult
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Star-crossed love will change two families' lives forever... Therese Anne Fowler's New York Times bestselling novel is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes.
A forbidden romance is blossoming in the tight-knit community of Oak Knoll.
No one's realised it yet - they've been too busy watching the rich, white Whitman family move into their newly built house. They've been watching Brad Whitman, with his new money and apparently traditional values, fight his neighbour over the historic oak tree dividing their properties.
But what they haven't noticed is that the Whitman girl is falling in love with the biracial boy next door.
It is a love that will shatter the constructs of class and race in this small town.
It is a love that might destroy everything...
*Therese Anne Fowler's new novel, It All Comes Down To This, is available to pre-order now*
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Praise for A Good Neighbourhood...
'Compelling, complicated, timely, and smart . . . hard to put down and hard to forget'
LAURIE FRANKEL
'This is a story that will stick with you for a long time'
EMILY GIFFIN
'Smart dialogue, compelling characters and a communal "we" narrator that implicates us all in the wrenching conclusion'
TARA CONKLIN
'A thought provoking and gripping novel - the kind that will have you savouring every page'
CULTUREFLY
'It's the kind of book you tell your friends to read immediately, just so you have someone to talk to about it'
i PAPER
'Fowler's novel culminates with injustices that are painfully easy to imagine because they continue to be a part of our contemporary lived experience'
THE WASHINGTON POST
'Make sure a friend reads it too - you're going to want to talk about this book as soon as you finish it'
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
'Fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere need to read Therese Anne Fowler's A Good Neighbourhood'
POPSUGAR
'Beautiful, compelling and heartbreaking'
GLASGOW HERALD
'This page-turner delivers a thoughtful exploration of prejudice, preconceived notions, and what it means to be innocent'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'A rippling story for fans of suspenseful domestic dramas'
BOOKLIST
'An unforgettable, heart-breaking story'
LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
'Check out this contemporary fiction novel if you've ever found yourself wondering what it means to be a good neighbour in modern America'
HUFFINGTON POST
'A provocactive, absorbing read'
PEOPLE
'One of the most precise and timely novels of the year'
NEWSWEEK
*Therese Anne Fowler's new novel, It All Comes Down To This, is available to pre-order now*
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fowler's fascinating follow-up to 2018's A Well-Behaved Woman chronicles the animosity generated between two families that leads to a tragedy in the suburban North Carolina neighborhood of Oak Knoll. Before local TV celebrity Brad Whitman, who is white, moves in, black single mother and ecologist Valerie Alston-Holt already has a poor opinion of him, as the house he is having built compromises an oak tree on Valerie's property. She grows even more wary upon learning that Brad's 17-year-old step-daughter Juniper took a purity vow. None of this deters Valerie's son, Xavier, a gifted musician and honors student who's headed to college in the fall, from pursuing her Juniper. A particularly ugly side of Brad emerges once Valerie sues him and his builder for damage to the tree: he doesn't understand her genuine concern for the ecosystem and makes a number of racist and misogynistic remarks to her. Brad sees an opportunity for revenge when he catches Juniper and Xavier in an intimate moment and later uses his connections to a prosecutor and spins the truth to trump up charges against Xavier. The plot is skillfully executed, delving into each character's complexities fully enough that their choices make perfect sense. This page-turner delivers a thoughtful exploration of prejudice, preconceived notions, and what it means to be innocent in the age of an opportunistic media. 350,000-copy announced first printing.
