A great story, very hard to put down but just a bit too long for a one-sitting read which it deserves. It concerns a rich American family with parental and financial secrets. Our narrator, Mabel, is not of their world. She comes from a poor background and is a college chum of the daughter. She is invited to spend the summer with the extended family on their luxurious estate. It is the patriarch’s sister who approaches Mabel to expose her monstrous brother for she believes the Van Gogh in the main house to be hers. She gives Mabel an old diary where, she says, the truth lies. The diary goes back to the 1920s and there are a lot of ‘truths’ to expose! Great stuff. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
'Evokes Gone Girl with its exploration of dark secrets and edge-of-your-seat twists' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
'Gripping, beguiling and beautifully written... a page turner that chills as it intoxicates. Miranda Beverly-Whittemore has created a family so dangerously enthralling that the more we learn of their greed and bloodlust, the more we aspire to belong' KATE CHRISTENSEN, PEN
/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special 'Part coming-of-age story, part riveting mystery, Bittersweet is a tantalizing tale of an outsider thrust into a glittering world of immense privilege and suspect morals. With a narrator torn between uncovering one family's dark secrets and protecting her own, Bittersweet brilliantly explores the complicated question of what price any of us would pay to seize the life of our dreams KIMBERLY MCCREIGHT, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia
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About Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is the author of three novels, including The Effects of Light and Set Me Free, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, for the best book of fiction by an American woman published in 2007. A recipient of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, she lives and writes in Brooklyn and Vermont.
Bittersweet features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction
Bittersweet is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Bittersweet was written by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore and published by Crown
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