The Exclusives: No one can hurt you more than a friend

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1996. Freya Seymour and Josephine Grey are invincible - beautiful and brilliant, the two best friends are on the cusp of Oxbridge, and the success they always dreamed they'd share.

2014. Freya gets in touch, looking for a conversation Josephine has run away from for eighteen long and tortured years. Beginning with one ill-fated night, The Exclusives charts the agonising spiral of friendship gone wrong, the heartache and betrayal of letting down those closest to you and the poisonous possibilities of what we wouldn't do when everything we prize is placed under threat. And in the end, as she realises she cannot run forever, Josephine must answer one question: is it Freya she cannot face, or is it her own darkest secret

The Exclusives is Rebecca Thornton's powerful debut novel about friendship and tragedy at an exclusive boarding school.

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Compellingly dark, brilliantly gripping: Rebecca Thornton takes a scalpel to the heart of female friendship. -- Elizabeth Day
A very accomplished novel that had me eagerly turning the pages to find out exactly what happened . . . I'm looking forward to reading more from her -- The Haphazardous Hippo blog
Neglecting work, household chores and husbands because I can't get my nose our of my Kindle thanks to Rebecca Thornton's brilliantly unputdownable debut novel, The Exclusives. -- 3 bad mice blog
Dark. Emotional.... This is the kind of story you need to be prepared to sit down and absorb properly...if you like emotional reads that will stay with you then this comes. Highly recommended! * Buried Under Books Blog *
An exploration of friendship, betrayal and the dark, disturbing, far reaching effects down the years. What emerged is something that's very, very good...We're in total suspense and want to be there at the end for the girls' sake. When the end comes, it may be tied off rather neatly, but it's an ending of just desserts and is worth every chewed nail we collect on the way. * The Bookbag *

Author Bio

Rebecca Thornton is a journalist and runs an online advertising business. Her work has been published in Prospect Magazine, Daily Mail, The Jewish News and The Sunday People. She was Acting Editor of an arts and culture magazine based in Jordan, and she's reported from Kosovo, London, and the Middle East. Rebecca is an alumna of the Faber Academy writing-a-novel course, where she was tutored by Esther Freud and Tim Lott.