THE PARTY PB – ROBYN HARDING

It was supposed to be a celebration. How did it all go so wrong? An explosive family drama perfect for fans of Big Little Lies. A tense and riveting story about one night gone horribly wrong, and the fallout within a family and a group of friends Megan Miranda, author of All the Missing Girls Sweet sixteen. It s a coming of age, a milestone, a rite of passage. Of course Jeff and Kim Sanders will throw a party for their daughter, Hannah. She s a good kid with good grades and nice friends. And it isn t going to be a big, indulgent affair. Just four girls coming over for pizza and cake, movies and a sleepover. What could possibly go wrong? But things do go wrong, horrifically wrong. After a tragic accident, Jeff and Kim s flawless life in a wealthy San Francisco suburb begins to unravel. The injured girl s mother, Lisa, files a lawsuit that turns friends into enemies, reveals dark secrets in the Sanders marriage, and exposes the truth about their perfect daughter, Hannah. Lisa s determination to make the Sanders pay stems from a fierce love for her only child and Lisa s own dark and damaged past. In The Party, Christos Tsiolkas s The Slap meets Liane Moriarty s Big Little Lies, taking us behind the facade of the perfect family, exploring the secrets, betrayals, and moral lapses the neighbors don t see. The Party uncovers the lies and duplicities that children and parents tell each other. And tell themselves. A compulsive page-turner that mines the push-pull between basic impulses and doing the ‘right thing,’ The Party is a domestic drama that spins off the rails with hellish consequences Erica Ferencik, author of The River at Night A tense and riveting story about one night gone horribly wrong, and the fallout within a family and a group of friends. Secrets, desires, choice and consequence, The Party reveals that what lies inside a family and each person is not always as it seems. I was hooked from the opening scene and could not look away until I re