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Shaye Areheart Books
August 2007
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Featuring: Amanda; Thea
320 pages
ISBN: 0307352927
EAN: 9780307352927
Hardcover
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Fiction | Contemporary | Women's Fiction
Amanda is a successful book editor at a prominent publishing house in New York City. Thea is a stay-at-home mother of three who has never really left the community in which she grew up. Amanda, eight monthsโ pregnant with her first child, and her husband move in next door to Thea and her family, and the two women find themselves both drawn to and repelled by each other and their opposing choices in the constant struggle to balance career and family life. When a disaster forces Amanda and her family to take refuge in Theaโs home, the underlying tensions simmering between them are forced to the surface-and even more so when Thea fills in as Amandaโs temporary nanny. But once dead animals start appearing on Theaโs front porch-surely a macabre gift from Amanda?-the battle with โthe other motherโ begins in earnest. With a keen eye for what pulls us apart and what brings us together, Gwendolen Gross has created a stunning, dark, suspenseful novel that is as brave as it is shocking.
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