Sister of Mine
A Novel
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
One of Refinery29's “Best Psychological Suspense Novels to Read After Gone Girl”
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a “twisty, claustrophobic” domestic suspense novel about the lies we tell to hold our lives together (Entertainment Weekly)
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Penny and Hattie, orphaned sisters in a small town, are best friends, bound together to the point of knots. But Penny, at the mercy of her brutal husband, is desperate for a fresh start. Willing to do anything for her older sister, Hattie agrees to help. A match is struck and a fire burns Penny’s marriage to the ground. With her husband gone, Penny is free, and the sisters, it seems, get away with murder. But freedom comes at a cost.
More than a year after the fire, a charming young man comes to town. Hattie and Penny quickly bring him into the fold and into their hearts but their love for him threatens the delicate balance. Soon long-held resentments, sibling rivalry, and debts unpaid boil over, and the bonds of sisterhood begin to snap. As one little lie grows into the next, the sisters’ secrets will unravel, eroding their lives until only a single, horrible truth remains: You owe me.
A compelling novel of suspense from a talented new voice, Sister of Mine asks us to consider the bonds of family, what it takes to commit the unthinkable, and how far you’ll go to protect the ones you love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in the small Canadian town of St. Margaret's, Petrou's riveting debut finds Penny Grayson, the book's eloquent narrator, and her younger sister, Hattie, sharing their family home after the death of Penelope's abusive husband, Buddy, in a fire. Penny, the director of the town's day care center, and Hattie, who works at the beauty salon, have settled into a relatively comfortable routine. However, the delicate balance of their lives changes when a handsome stranger, Jameson Leung, comes to teach at the local school. For the sisters, his arrival "was like the moon dropped out of the sky and broke open like an orange." Soon they're competing for Jameson's affections. The women's complicated relationship made up of shifting emotions of rage, jealousy, guilt, grief, and profound love is repeatedly tested. Meanwhile, the question of what really happened to Buddy hovers over the novel. The plot may be a tad melodramatic, but it moves swiftly toward the shocking answer to that question. Readers will be keen to see what Petrou comes up with next.
