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.
Reviewed by Sarah Broadhurst Sarah Broadhurst spent her early working life in the book trade in both retail and wholesale until the arrival of children forced her to look for freelance work she could do from… More reviews by Sarah Broadhurst
'Dark, debut novel about why you should never turn your back on a best friend' Red Magazine
'Who's good? Who's evil? Those questions are at the heart of Watching Edie, a taut, tricky suspense novel that drops secrets in all the right places. As she explores the heart of a dark female friendship, Camilla Way twists her way to an original ending that rings with truth.' Julia Heaberlin, bestselling author of Black
-Eyed Susans 'Watching Edie has a clever plot, a fateful friendship, a callous betrayal, and an ending that is as twisty as it is inevitable - it's all there! Alexandra Burt, international bestselling author of Little Girl Gone
'Wonderful - one of those novels that sucks you in and doesn't let go for a moment. Way brings a powerful new voice to the psychological thriller genre that promises much for the future.' Alex Marwood, bestselling author of The Wicked Girls and The Killer Next Door
Praise for Camilla Way:
'Prepare to be gripped by this brilliantly haunting novel' Grazia
'A modern day classic in the making' Dazed
& Confused 'A beautifully written descent into darkness Glamour
'So addictive you'll devour it in one greedy gulp' Cosmopolitan
'An amazing debut' New Woman
'This compelling psychological thriller is a real hair-raising read thanks to the gritty realistic writing' She magazine
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About Camilla Way
Camilla Way was born in Greenwich, south-east London in 1973. Her father was the poet and author Peter Way. After attending Woolwich College she studied modern English and French literature at the University of Glamorgan. Formerly Associate Editor of the teenage girls' magazine Bliss, she is currently an editor and writer on the men's style magazine Arena. Having lived in Cardiff, Bristol, Bath and Clerkenwell, she now lives in south-east London.
Watching Edie features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Books of the Month, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories
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Watching Edie was written by Camilla Way and published by Penguin Publishing Group
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