Open Season

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Every relationship has rules. What if they all changed

Hura and Cillian have a happy, secure marriage and are on the brink of planning a family. But when Hura's teaching career gets derailed, they decide it's time to explore a fantasy: opening up their relationship.

Roses has never been monogamous. Her connection with elusive James-who works all hours as a junior doctor-is electric, and they're falling for each other. But both have secrets that make intimacy feel dangerous, and in a bid to reassert her independence, Roses suggests they sleep with other people.

When these two couples collide, life shifts on its axis and starts to spin out of control. As Roses and James fight to keep the past from overwhelming them, and Cillian and Hura test the limits of trust, they must all decide which lines to draw-and which to cross.

A passionate deconstruction of the complexities of sex, love, honesty and betrayal, OPEN SEASON marks Cassie Werber out as a major new talent.

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A breathtaking novel that gets under the skin of the complexities of love, sex and human nature. The writing seduces and sings, and the characters are devastatingly real. An astonishing debut. * Katie Bishop, author of THE GIRLS OF SUMMER *

Author Bio

Cassie Werber is a writer, journalist and podcaster.

She was senior reporter at Quartz, covering topics as diverse as workplace equity and climate change, and appearing on CNN, Sky News, the BBC, and NPR. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and the Guardian, as well as other international publications. She was also co-director of popular journalism and tech meetup Hacks Hackers London.

As co-founder of theatre company ChoppedLogic she co-wrote and performed in Paramour; wrote and directed The Runaround, and wrote and directed Double Negative, which reached the third round of Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate award and was Time Out Critics' Choice. Her screenplays ANMER and REWILD were both shortlisted for 4Screenwriting. She trained in journalism in Denmark, Amsterdam and at City University, London; in theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama; and in English Literature at Clare College, Cambridge.

Open Season is her first novel.