The Betrayals

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Dear Rosie, The reason I'm writing to you is simple: I'd like to see you one last time.

I'd like to ask your forgiveness and tell you something you need to know. Before it's too late. Lisa

Rosie and Lisa. Inseparable since they were children, they remained by each other's side through the most important moments of their adult lives. Until that fateful week of vacation together on the wild Norfolk coast, windswept even in summer. A week that changed their destinies forever, and destroyed their families like a house of cards.

Since then, Rosie has tried to forget, trying to rebuild her life without her husband, Nick; for their part, Daisy and Max, her then-young children, have painfully carried the scars of the first great disappointment of their lives. Nick, guilty of breaking up his marriage, has spent these years trying to explain his behavior to himself. Trying to find a meaning in it that perhaps isn't there. All four, each in their own way, have buried the memory of what happened in silence. But the memory, even so, has never stopped hurting.

And now Lisa, now ill, resurfaces with a letter. To ask for forgiveness. To tell her side of the story. And to reveal a final, terrible secret buried in those days so many years ago.

A novel that has enchanted English readers for its ability to weave the stories of its characters into an inextricable knot of affections, resentments, and desires, and to explore the very nature of regret and forgiveness. Rosie, Daisy, Max, Nick: four points of view, four stories, four versions of a single event. Which one will you believe?