Accidents Happen
A Novel
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From Louise Millar, the acclaimed author of The Playdate, comes a gripping psychological thriller where one woman’s streak of bad luck may be something far more sinister.
A MAGNETIC AND CHILLING NEW THRILLER FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR LOUISE MILLAR
Kate Parker has weathered unimaginable horrors—her parents died in a traffic accident on her wedding night, and her husband, Hugo, was murdered in a tragic break-in gone wrong. All she has left is her young son, Jack, and determined to make a better future for him, she attempts to pull her life back together. But are she and her son safe?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Against all odds, literally, Kate Parker is struggling to salvage her sanity; her relationship with her 10-year-old son, Jack; and some scrap of hopefulness in this compelling second psychological thriller from the author of The Playdate (2012). A decadelong string of disasters including her parents' death in a freak car crash the night of her wedding has reduced Kate from a dynamic young woman living a Tatler-ready London life with her husband and business partner, Hugo, to an emotionally wracked widow in East Oxford, who obsessively calculates the chances of various calamities, like contracting a disease from drinking at a juice bar. Then, amazingly, she meets someone who might actually be able to help her charismatic statistician Jago Martin, who challenges her to master her fears through a series of increasingly risky dares. Although in hindsight some plot elements prove less than credible, readers will root for Kate and Jack as they navigate their way through a labyrinth of intersecting lives and lies in a heady page-turner that should appeal to fans of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series.
