In the tradition of Zoe Heller’s What Was She
Thinking?Notes on a Scandal, The New Neighbor
is a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman’s
curiosity turned into a dangerous obsession as she becomes
involved in her new neighbor’s complicated and cloaked
life.
Ninety-year-old Margaret Riley is content
hiding from the world. Stoic and independent, she rarely
leaves the Tennessee mountaintop where she lives, finding
comfort in the mystery novels that keep her company, that
is, until she spots a woman who’s moved into the long-empty
house across the pond.
Jennifer Young is also
looking to hide. On the run from her old life, she and her
four-year-old son Milo have moved to a quiet town where no
one from her past can find her.
In Jennifer,
Margaret sees both a potential companion in her loneliness
and a mystery to be solved. But Jennifer refuses to talk
about herself, her son, his missing father, or her past.
Frustrated, Margaret crosses more and more boundaries in
pursuit of the truth, threatening to unravel the new life
Jennifer has so painstakingly created—and reveal some
secrets of her own.
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