This Perfect WorldHeddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equally fortunate friends. But Lauras perfect world is

Beset by egos and disease

and yet so revelatory about human kindness that you might also feel touched by grace

Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world

making it clear that the Mafia were there before and are there still

the game plays out his way

wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret

Exposed as a fraud

A bold and intelligent read Laura Wilson

a series of letters are unexpectedly discovered by a descendent of these men

amidst scandal and suicide

twisted powerhouse of a novel

Clarke's short story A Meeting with Medusa