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The Book Game
By (Author) Frances Wise
HarperCollins Publishers
Fourth Estate Ltd
30th September 2025
5th June 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Narrative theme: sense of place
823.92
Hardback
352
Width 159mm, Height 240mm, Spine 34mm
270g
A group of old friends reunite for an idyllic week-long retreat. By Friday, their lives will never be the same again
In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a week-long writers' retreat.
There is reading by the pool or writing in the shady corners of the garden and inside the spectacular 18th-century home. In the evenings, there are communal drinks, dinner outdoors, midnight swimming, games.
But someone is playing a game the others don't understand, meddling with their work and appearing to lurk on the edges of the retreat. As tensions rise over the seven days, desire and deceit rise to the surface and all their lives will change forever
Frances Wise lives in London. This is their first novel.