The Paper Palace
£9.99
Before anyone else is awake, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious freshwater pond below ‘The Paper Palace’ – the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle glances through the screen porch at the table from the dinner the previous evening; empty wine glasses, candle wax on the tablecloth, echoes of laughter of family and friends. Then she dives beneath the surface of the freezing water to the shocking memory of the sudden passionate encounter she had the night before, up against the wall behind the house, as her husband and mother chatted to the guests inside. So begins a story that unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacies, love, lies, secrets and one unspeakable incident in her childhood lead Elle to the precipice of a life-changing decision.
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‘A deeply emotional love story that follows one day in the life of Elle Bishop as she navigates the unravelling of secrets, lies and a very complex love triangle’ REESE WITHERSPOON
‘Glorious and gorgeous. I was absolutely immersed and gripped and I’m devastated to have finished it’ MARIAN KEYES
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A PAGE-TURNING SUMMERTIME READ FOR FANS OF WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING AND LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE
On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below ‘The Paper Palace’ – her family’s holiday home in Cape Cod. As she dives beneath the water she relives the passionate encounter she had the night before, against the side of the house that knows all her darkest secrets, while her husband and mother chatted to their guests inside…
So begins a story that unfolds over twenty-four hours and fifty years, as Elle’s shocking betrayal leads her to a life-changing decision.
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‘Here is a love triangle that keeps you turning the pages’ Rachel Joyce
‘Utterly addictive’ Rosamund Lupton
‘Dry, sharp and with devastating depths plumbed so elegantly’ Pandora Sykes
‘Smart, atmospheric and seriously juicy’ Stylist
‘Earthy, intoxicating, shimmering’ Sunday Times
Readers have been gripped by THE PAPER PALACE too:
***** ‘I devoured this book in a couple of days’
***** ‘I fell in love with the characters’
***** ‘A heart-rending love story filled with so many complications, you won’t want to finish it’
***** ‘It pulled me in from the first page’
***** ‘If you loved Where the Crawdads Sing then you will love this book as well’
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