The guilt trip

Sandie Jones

Book - 2021

"In the vein of The Other Woman, Sandie Jones's explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page. Six friends. Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack's brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend. Three couples. As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is look...ing forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can't help but rub many of the group the wrong way: Rachel's best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will's choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about. One fatal misunderstanding . . . But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death"--

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Subjects
Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Suspense fiction
Published
New York : Minotaur Books 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Sandie Jones (author)
Edition
First U.S. Edition
Physical Description
308 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781250265586
9781250838117
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this soap opera masquerading as a suspense novel from Jones (The Other Woman), two British couples in their 40s--Rachel and Jack, and Paige and Noah--head to Portugal for the wedding of Jack's much younger brother, Will, to the manipulative and impetuous Ali. They all stay at an awe-inspiring clifftop villa overlooking a fishing village. Deeply insecure Rachel gave up her one true love, Noah, some 20 years earlier, in order to marry and start a family with Jack, a brash record company executive. Noah is now married to Paige, Rachel's best friend. Ali, who once worked for Jack, is seen as a rival by the older women, who are beginning to question their own life choices. Meanwhile, avid surfer Will is too busy riding the waves to notice the undercurrent of tensions that ebb and flow through the other characters' every waking moment. Toward the end, someone drives a car in Rachel's direction with fatal intent, and one of the principals dies. This works well as a telenovela, but those looking for a mystery or thrills will be disappointed. Agent: Tanera Simons, Darley Anderson (U.K.). (Aug.)

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Review by Library Journal Review

Friends since university, Rachel and Noah are now married to Jack and Paige, respectively, and now that Jack's brother Will is marrying wild-child Ali, it's time for everyone to get together at a destination wedding. Small tensions might be inevitable, but the weekend is ripped open when Rachel discovers something truly shocking about the bride-to-be. With a 100,000-copy first printing.

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