Necessary People

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Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laser-focused Violet stays behind the scenes, always ready to clean up the mess that Stella inevitably leaves in her wake.

After graduation, Violet moves to New York and lands a job in cable news, where she works her way up from intern to assistant to producer, and to a life where shes finally free from Stellas shadow. In this fast-paced world, Violet thrives, and her ambitions growbut everything is jeopardised when Stella, envious of Violets new life, uses her connections, beauty, and charisma to get hired at the same network. Stella soon moves in front of the camera, becoming the public face of the stories that Violet has worked tirelessly to produceand taking all the credit.

Stella might be the one with the rich family and the right friends, but Violet isnt giving up so easily. As she and Stella strive for success, each reveals just how far shell go to get what she wantseven if it means destroying the other person along the way.

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That book-blurb saying "I couldn't put it down" is usually bullshit, right For me it was true of Anna Pitoniak's Necessary People. I literally couldn't stop reading. Murder, ambition, toxic friendship. What's not to like * Stephen King *
A chilling mix of charm, danger, suspense, and surprises. You think you know where the story is goingbut you dont. * Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author *
Delicious...Thrilling...I was so mesmerised by this story that I took the longer subway route to drinks more than once so Id have more time to savour it. * Marie Claire, Best Books of 2019 (so far) *
Take the simmering jealousy found in many female friendships, ratchet it up, and mix in some seriously Ripley-esque longings for upper-crust lifestyles, and youll land at Anna Pitoniaks utterly enthralling novel...Necessary People is an escapist thriller laced with substantive social commentary. A no-guilt guilty pleasure. * Refinery29 *
Fantastic...This stirring character study and treatise on the dark sides of ambition, friendship, family, and privilege will hook readers from the get-go. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
'Pitoniak is an astute social observer, and the novela literary thriller about class aspiration and young female ambitionis a twisting delight with a haunting punch. Deceptively nuanced, and impossible to put down, this is escapism with substance... Sheer pleasure.' * Kirkus (starred review) *
Deliciously compulsiveWill keep you racing towards the end.' * SA Weekend *
Anna Pitoniak is a clever writer who has plotted the downward course of this friendship with subtlety and precision. Thoroughly recommended. * Otago Daily Times *

Author Bio

Anna Pitoniak is the author of The Futures. She worked for many years in book publishing, most recently as a Senior Editor at Random House. She grew up in Whistler, British Columbia, and now lives in New York City.