{"product_id":"9781035403844","title":"Whidbey : 'In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl' (Chelsea Bieker)","description":"Author(s): Madden, T Kira, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/03\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Tinder Press,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Headline Publishing Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945),\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 164 x 243 x 34\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781035403844\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl' Chelsea Bieker'A masterpiece' Carmen Maria Machado----You want to know who did it, but that was never the question. Or, it was never the right one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirdie Chang doesn't know much about Whidbey Island, only that it is far. On the ferry, she has an unnerving encounter with a stranger, where she finds herself telling him everything: how she was sexually abused as a child, how the perpetrator now walks free, how the calls and emails from him haven't stopped and she is on the run; how she wants to kill him. The stranger poses a shocking question - if she agrees, he will murder the man who hurt her, with no strings attached.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe gives him a name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other side of the country, Mary-Beth receives a phone call from the police: her only son has been murdered. What follows is a complex story of three women connected through one man: Birdie, a woman on the run from her past and her abuser; Mary-Beth, the abuser's loving mother; and Linzie, a former reality star turned bestselling memoirist, and another victim of the same man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhidbey is a gripping whodunnit and a searingly perceptive and astonishingly original novel that asks the crucial question of who has real power over a story: the one who lives it, or the one who tells it?Women are rarely in receipt of what they are owed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e----Readers love Whidbey:'One of the best things I've read in recent memory' ?????This is one of the best books I've read in my life' ?????\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madden, T Kira","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56452158882178,"sku":"9781035403844","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781035403844_c17fb7d3-3c8b-470a-a25b-a65e36eedc89.jpg?v=1775909151","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9781035403844","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}