In alternating chapters headed “Before” and “After” and narrated by both Heather and Edie, this is one truly compulsive read. Menace hangs over the whole thing. “Before” was seventeen years ago when the girls became friends and some dreadful mystery occurred. “After” is the present, they had lost touch and are now reunited where some equally dark secret hovers.
All parts of the many mysteries are drip fed to us in tantalising drops. Who, in this obsessive friendship, is good, who bad? One of them is certainly manipulative and suffocating but it is the other who appears to be the betrayer. So we swing back and forth as each mystery gets darker and the atmosphere grows deeper but still we do not know what happened all those years ago. Its major fault is that it is over all too soon! Highly recommended.

'Compelling, dark and intense, this story of a friendship gone wrong will keep you guessing until the end'-B.A. PARIS, No.1 bestselling author of
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'Compelling, dark and intense, this story of a friendship gone wrong will keep you guessing until the end'-B.A. PARIS, No.1 bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORSTHERE ARE SOME FRIENDS YOU'LL NEVER FORGET...NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRYBEFOREEdie is the friend that Heather has always craved.
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Watching Edie was written by Camilla Way and published by HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Watching Edie has 368 pages