The Guest

An engrossing, unsettling summer read from the author of the global phenomenon The Girls ‘Take it to the beach and savour every page’ Rob Doyle, Observer ‘Beach reading at its finest’ Daily Mail The summer shimmers with wealth, privilege and promise on Long Island, but Alex is no longer welcome... Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the older man she’s been seeing. After one misstep at a dinner party she’s dismissed with a ride to the station and a ticket back to the city. But Alex decides to stay on the island, charming her way into the lives of the dazzlingly wealthy set who live there and leaving a trail of destruction behind her. Just how long can she keep going before she’s found out? ‘The ideal mix of hazy summer glamour and simmering threat for compulsive beach reading’ Megan Nolan

THE TENSION-FILLED NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NUMBER ONE DIGITAL BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK, THE PRISONER . Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house - sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She has walked out on her husband - and their good friend - Pierre over his confession of an affair. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive. But as Laure's mood becomes more unpredictable, her presence begins to unravel secrets in all their pasts - until things reach breaking point ... READERS ARE GRIPPED BY THE GUEST : 'Seriously?! I just could not believe it!' 'Couldn't put it down. Loved it' 'A whopper of a twist that you don't see coming' 'Keeps you guessing and on tenterhooks until the end' 'Super addictive . . . I read it in a day!' 'As the secrets unravel and the body count starts to mount, I really did not see the ending coming at all...' 'It was so hard to put down and adult instead!' 'A mesmeric, tense and twisting nightmare. Suffocating, controlled and hugely entertaining' CHRIS WHITAKER 'B.A. Paris is a mistress at weaving family with fear, suspense and subterfuge' JANE CORRY 'Expertly plotted and compellingly told . . . I raced through it' HARRIET TYCE 'Packed with tension and nail-bitingly real, I couldn't put it down!' LAUREN NORTH PRAISE FOR B.A. PARIS' NERVE-SHREDDING NOVELS: 'A rollercoaster ride, with plenty of twists' OBSERVER 'Chilling, intense and frightening in places, you'll be left wondering what is real and what isn't' WOMAN & HOME' 'Claustrophobic, menacing and relentlessly tense, this is a fiendishly plotted thriller with a great central twist' SARAH VAUGHAN 'Gripping' DAILY MIRROR 'Elegant, taut, ingeniously plotted and extremely addictive. Superb!' WILL DEAN 'Dark and compulsive ... B.A. Paris again conjures up the tense claustrophobia of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and delivers yet another brilliant, unputdownable read' GILLY MACMILLAN 'I loved the short chapters in part one, which really added to the rising tension' PRIMA 'Wow! What a ride! A tantalising, taut, tense thriller' JANE CORRY

THE TENSION-FILLED NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NUMBER ONE DIGITAL BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK, THE PRISONER . Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house - sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She has walked out on her husband - and their good friend - Pierre over his confession of an affair. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive. But as Laure's mood becomes more unpredictable, her presence begins to unravel secrets in all their pasts - until things reach breaking point ... READERS ARE GRIPPED BY THE GUEST : 'Seriously?! I just could not believe it!' 'Couldn't put it down. Loved it' 'A whopper of a twist that you don't see coming' 'Keeps you guessing and on tenterhooks until the end' 'Super addictive . . . I read it in a day!' 'As the secrets unravel and the body count starts to mount, I really did not see the ending coming at all...' 'It was so hard to put down and adult instead!' 'A mesmeric, tense and twisting nightmare. Suffocating, controlled and hugely entertaining' CHRIS WHITAKER 'B.A. Paris is a mistress at weaving family with fear, suspense and subterfuge' JANE CORRY 'Expertly plotted and compellingly told . . . I raced through it' HARRIET TYCE 'Packed with tension and nail-bitingly real, I couldn't put it down!' LAUREN NORTH PRAISE FOR B.A. PARIS' NERVE-SHREDDING NOVELS: 'A rollercoaster ride, with plenty of twists' OBSERVER 'Chilling, intense and frightening in places, you'll be left wondering what is real and what isn't' WOMAN & HOME' 'Claustrophobic, menacing and relentlessly tense, this is a fiendishly plotted thriller with a great central twist' SARAH VAUGHAN 'Gripping' DAILY MIRROR 'Elegant, taut, ingeniously plotted and extremely addictive. Superb!' WILL DEAN 'Dark and compulsive ... B.A. Paris again conjures up the tense claustrophobia of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and delivers yet another brilliant, unputdownable read' GILLY MACMILLAN 'I loved the short chapters in part one, which really added to the rising tension' PRIMA 'Wow! What a ride! A tantalising, taut, tense thriller' JANE CORRY

An engrossing, unsettling summer read from the author of the global phenomenon The Girls ‘Take it to the beach and savour every page’ Rob Doyle, Observer ‘Beach reading at its finest’ Daily Mail The summer shimmers with wealth, privilege and promise on Long Island, but Alex is no longer welcome... Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the older man she’s been seeing. After one misstep at a dinner party she’s dismissed with a ride to the station and a ticket back to the city. But Alex decides to stay on the island, charming her way into the lives of the dazzlingly wealthy set who live there and leaving a trail of destruction behind her. Just how long can she keep going before she’s found out? ‘The ideal mix of hazy summer glamour and simmering threat for compulsive beach reading’ Megan Nolan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" ( Vogue ), "smoldering" ( The Washington Post ) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls . "Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force."-- The New York Times A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK - VULTURE 'S INAUGURAL "BEACH BOOK READS" BOOK CLUB PICK - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Bookreporter "Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass from one world to another." Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake. Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.