A Small Indiscretion

Synopsis

Fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Girl on the Train will devour this page-turning literary debut about a harrowing coming-of-age and a marriage under siege from O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison. "An emotional thriller . . . Connoisseurs of domestic suspense will finish this book in a few breathless sittings."--Kirkus Reviews At nineteen, Annie Black abandons California for a London winter of drinking to oblivion and looking for love in the wrong places. Twenty years later, she is a happily married mother of three living in San Francisco. Then one morning, a photograph arrives in her mailbox, and an old obsession is awakened. After a return trip to London, Annie's marriage falters, her store floods, and her son, Robbie, takes a night-time ride that nearly costs him his life. Now Annie must fight to save her family by untangling the mysteries of that reckless winter in Europe that drew an invisible map of his future. With the brilliant pacing and emotional precision that won Jan Ellison an O. Henry Prize for her first published story, A Small Indiscretion announces a major new voice in suspense fiction as it unfolds a story of denial, obsession, love, forgiveness--and one woman's reckoning with her own fateful mistakes. Praise for A Small Indiscretion "Are those wild college days ever really behind you? Happily married Annie finds out."--Cosmopolitan "[A] cleverly constructed debut . . . a deftly crafted, absorbing novel that peels back the layers of Annie's character as it reveals the secrets of her past and present."--Booklist "An engrossing, believable, gracefully written family drama that reveals our past's bare-knuckle grip on our present."--Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room "A stunning debut by Jan Ellison . . . Like the photograph that arrives in the mail and sets in motion the plot of this gorgeous novel, A Small Indiscretion reminds us of the intensity of youthful desire and of the fragile nature of a marriage built on secrecy."--Ann Packer, New York Times bestselling author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier "A Small Indiscretion is that rare thing--a literary page turner written with great warmth and humanity, which pulls the reader in emotionally without a hint of sentimentality."--Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind"It might be convenient if our mistakes would fade with time rather than hunt us down complete with consequence, but that wouldn't make for the kind of taut, hypnotic story Jan Ellison tells. The impact of narrator Annie Black's 'small' indiscretion is anything but, and in a brilliantly paced unraveling, Ellison makes vivid the sometimes tragic interplay of choice and fate, lust and love, youth and adulthood--which can bring its own mistakes. Absorbing, chilling, and moving, A Small Indiscretion is the debut of an elegant writer who will be known and admired from the start."--Robin Black, author of Life DrawingFrom the Hardcover edition.rick."--Kirkus Reviews "[A] cleverly constructed debut . . . a deftly crafted, absorbing novel that peels back the layers of Annie's character as it reveals the secrets of her past and present."--BooklistFrom the Hardcover edition.

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780812995459

Related ISBNs:

9780812985429

Publisher:

Random House Publishing Group

Date of Addition:

02/02/16

Copyrighted By:

Jan Ellison

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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