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A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read.\n\n'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian\n\n'A clever and absorbing debut by Inga Vesper, who bricks Joyce up in her perfect house, then smashes it to pieces with aplomb' The Times \n\n________\n\nYesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time . . .\n\nIt's the summer of 1959, and the well-trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes, California, wilt under the sun. At some point during the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney, wife, mother, vanishes from her home, leaving behind two terrified children and a bloodstain on the kitchen floor.\n\nWhile the Haney's neighbours get busy organising search parties, it is Ruby Wright, the family's 'help', who may hold the key to this unsettling mystery. Ruby knows more about the secrets behind Sunnylakes' starched curtains than anyone, and it isn't long before the detective in charge of the case wants her help. But what might it cost her to get involved? In these long hot summer afternoons, simmering with lies, mistrust and prejudice, it could only take one spark for this whole 'perfect' world to set alight . . .\n\nA beguiling, deeply atmospheric debut novel from the cracked heart of the American Dream, The Long, Long Afternoon is at once a page-turning mystery and an intoxicating vision of the ways in which women everywhere are diminished, silenced and ultimately under-estimated.\n\nEveryone is talking about The Long, Long Afternoon\n\n'Beguiling and evocative. This vivid and atmospheric pageturner will keep readers guessing all the way to its satisfying finale'\nSunday Express\n\n'Beautifully crafted, claustrophobic and compelling. As delicious as a long drink on a hot day'\nStacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling\n\n'Such a vivid atmosphere of stifling LA heat and stifling 50s domesticity'\nClare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures\n\n'Breathtakingly stylish, hypnotic and masterfully gripping'\nChris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End, Waterstones Thriller of the Month\n\n'A triumph. What a pleasure to read something fresh and original. For once the hype is justified and Inga Vesper's gripping page turner must surely now be bound for Netflix' \nEvening Standard\n\n'A tasty, tense, page-turning combo of James Ellroy and Kate Atkinson with a bit of Mad Men thrown in'\nLiz Hyder\n\n'For fans of Revolutionary Road and Mad Men, this is an atmospheric tale of repression and style at the heart of the American Dream' Stylist

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'Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End\n\nTHREE WOMEN. AN ISOLATED TOWN. A DECADES-OLD MYSTERY . . . \n\n1933. Cornelia Stover is not the kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. But, one day, she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills . . . \n\n1970. Decades later, Joanna Riley, a former cop, packs up her car in the middle of the night and drives west, fleeing an abusive marriage and a life she can no longer bear. Eventually, she runs out of gas and finds herself in Boldville.\n\nJoanna was looking for somewhere to hide, but something is off about this place. In a commune on the outskirts a young man has been found dead and Joanna knows a cover up when she sees it. Soon, she and Glitter, a young, disaffected hippie, find themselves caught up in a dark mystery that goes to the very heart of Boldville. A mystery that leads them all the way back to the unexplained disappearance of Glitter's grandmother Cornelia forty years before . . .\n\n A captivating, atmospheric new mystery from the lauded author of The Long, Long Afternoon, This Wild Wild Country simmers with secrets, lies and terrible betrayal, unravelling the lives of three women at the mercy of their times.\n\nPraise for Inga Vesper\n\n'Remarkably assured. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian\n\n'A clever and absorbing debut' The Times\n\n'Beguiling and evocative. This vivid and atmospheric pageturner will keep readers guessing all the way to its satisfying finale' Sunday Express\n\n'Beautifully crafted, claustrophobic and compelling. As delicious as a long drink on a hot day' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling\n\n'Such a vivid atmosphere of stifling LA heat and stifling 50s domesticity' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures\n\n'Breathtakingly stylish, hypnotic and masterfully gripping' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End, Waterstones Thriller of the Month\n\n'A triumph. What a pleasure to read something fresh and original. For once the hype is justified and Inga Vesper's gripping page turner must surely now be bound for Netflix' Evening Standard\n\n'A tasty, tense, page-turning combo of James Ellroy and Kate Atkinson with a bit of Mad Men thrown in'\nLiz Hyder\n\n'An atmospheric tale of repression and style at the heart of the American Dream' Stylist

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'A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian\n\n'A clever and absorbing debut by Inga Vesper, who bricks Joyce up in her perfect house, then smashes it to pieces with aplomb' The Times\n\n A stunning 1950s set debut mystery brimming with atmosphere and perfect for fans of Tangerine, Small Pleasures and Mad Men.\n ________\n \n Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time . . .\n\n It's the summer of 1959, and the well-trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes, California, wilt under the sun. At some point during the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney, wife, mother, vanishes from her home, leaving behind two terrified children and a bloodstain on the kitchen floor.\n\n While the Haney's neighbours get busy organising search parties, it is Ruby Wright, the family's 'help', who may hold the key to this unsettling mystery. Ruby knows more about the secrets behind Sunnylakes' starched curtains than anyone, and it isn't long before the detective in charge of the case wants her help. But what might it cost her to get involved? In these long hot summer afternoons, simmering with lies, mistrust and prejudice, it could only take one spark for this whole 'perfect' world to set alight . . .\n \n A beguiling, deeply atmospheric debut novel from the cracked heart of the American Dream, The Long, Long Afternoon is at once a page-turning mystery and an intoxicating vision of the ways in which women everywhere are diminished, silenced and ultimately under-estimated.\n\n Everyone is talking about The Long, Long Afternoon\n\n'Beguiling and evocative. This vivid and atmospheric pageturner will keep readers guessing all the way to its satisfying finale' \nSunday Express\n\n 'Beautifully crafted, claustrophobic and compelling. As delicious as a long drink on a hot day'\nStacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling\n\n'Such a vivid atmosphere of stifling LA heat and stifling 50s domesticity'\nClare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures\n\n 'Breathtakingly stylish, hypnotic and masterfully gripping'\nChris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End, Waterstones Thriller of the Month\n\n'A triumph. What a pleasure to read something fresh and original. For once the hype is justified and Inga Vesper's gripping page turner must surely now be bound for Netflix' \nEvening Standard\n\n 'A tasty, tense, page-turning combo of James Ellroy and Kate Atkinson with a bit of Mad Men thrown in'\nLiz Hyder\n\n'For fans of Revolutionary Road and Mad Men, this is an atmospheric tale of repression and style at the heart of the American Dream' Stylist

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Three women. A small, isolated town. A decades old mystery.\n\n1933. Cornelia Stover is not the kind of woman the menfolk of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. A widow, she ought to be taking care of her house and her daughter. Instead, she's meddling with things that should not concern her.\n1970. Joanna Riley, a former cop, packs up her car in the middle of the night and drives west, fleeing an abusive marriage and a life she can no longer bear. Eventually, her car runs out of gas and she finds herself in Boldville, a sleepy desert town in the foothills of the Gila Mountains. \nMeanwhile a young hippie, Glitter, is struggling to realise her plan for a commune. She thought a life of free love, away from the perils of consumerism, would bring her happiness. But things haven't quite turned out the way she had expected.\nSoon, Joanna and Glitter encounter a shocking modern-day crime and find themselves caught up in a decades-old mystery - the unexplained disappearance of Glitter's grandmother Cornelia . . .\nA captivating, atmospheric new novel from the lauded author of The Long, Long Afternoon, This Wild Wild Country simmers with secrets, lies and terrible betrayal, unravelling the lives of three women at the mercy of their times.

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'Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful. This Wild, Wild Country enchants as mysteries deepen and secrets echo over the harsh realities of the American Dream' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End\n\nThree women. An isolated town. A decades-old mystery.\n\nThey hate me down there, in Boldville. I can read it in their eyes, smell it on their noxious breaths. That dreaded little town hates everything about me: not just my personality and form, the clothes I wear, but the way I think.\nThe things that I know.\n\n1933. Cornelia Stover is headstrong and business-minded - not the kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. Then she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills . . . \n\n1970. Decades later, Joanna Riley, a former cop, packs up her car in the middle of the night and drives west, fleeing an abusive marriage and a life she can no longer bear. Eventually, she runs out of gas and finds herself in Boldville, a sleepy desert town in the foothills of the Gila Mountains.\n\nJoanna was looking for somewhere to retreat, to hide, but something is off about this place. In a commune on the outskirts a young man has been found dead and Joanna knows a cover up when she sees it. Soon, she and Glitter, a young, disaffected hippie, find themselves caught up in a dark mystery that goes to the very heart of Boldville, where for too long people have kept their eyes shut and turned their heads away. A mystery that leads them all the way back to the unexplained disappearance of Glitter's grandmother Cornelia forty years before . . .\n\n A captivating, atmospheric new novel from the lauded author of The Long, Long Afternoon, This Wild Wild Country simmers with secrets, lies and terrible betrayal, unravelling the lives of three women at the mercy of their times.\n\nPraise for Inga Vesper\n\n'Vesper is immensely readable' Sunday Times\n\n'Remarkably assured. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian\n\n'A clever and absorbing debut' The Times\n\n'Beguiling and evocative. This vivid and atmospheric pageturner will keep readers guessing all the way to its satisfying finale' Sunday Express\n\n'Beautifully crafted, claustrophobic and compelling. As delicious as a long drink on a hot day' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling\n\n'Such a vivid atmosphere of stifling LA heat and stifling 50s domesticity' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures\n\n'Breathtakingly stylish, hypnotic and masterfully gripping' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End, Waterstones Thriller of the Month\n\n'A triumph. What a pleasure to read something fresh and original. For once the hype is justified and Inga Vesper's gripping page turner must surely now be bound for Netflix' Evening Standard\n\n'A tasty, tense, page-turning combo of James Ellroy and Kate Atkinson with a bit of Mad Men thrown in'\nLiz Hyder\n\n'An atmospheric tale of...

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È un placido pomeriggio dell'estate del 1959 a Sunnylakes, California. Sotto un sole caldo, tra le villette a schiera, le limpide piscine e i giardini curati, sembra impossibile che possa accadere qualcosa di brutto. Eppure non è così. Quando Ruby arriva a casa degli Haney, una delle ricche famiglie bianche presso cui lavora come domestica per qualche dollaro l'ora, si accorge subito che qualcosa non va. La casa è vuota e silenziosa, se non per il pianto di una delle bambine, abbandonata nella culla. L'altra figlia, invece, è sola in giardino: qualcuno le ha detto di aspettare fuori. Aprendo la porta della cucina, Ruby si sente svenire: una grossa macchia di sangue occupa il pavimento della stanza, altrimenti immacolata. E della padrona di casa, Joyce Haney, non c'è traccia. Ruby viene arrestata e portata in cella. D'altronde, una domestica nera non può che essere la prima sospettata. Ma persino la polizia deve ammettere ben presto che la ragazza non c'entra nulla. O forse sì? Forse, quella donna spaventata sa meglio di chiunque altro cosa succede davvero dietro le tende delle perfette famiglie di Sunnylakes. Ed è per questo che il detective Michael Blanke chiederà proprio il suo aiuto per risolvere il caso. Ma in una società fatta di apparenze e pregiudizi, a volte la scelta migliore è restare invisibili... e tenere per sé i propri segreti.

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