Nell is the perfect child; more beautiful and more likeable and more loveable than me. If my pretty little sister never came home again, I’d finally be free from the terrible secret we share…
Anna is a wonderful mother. She gave up a career she loved to stay home with her children and her kind, polite daughters, Nell and Ivy, are a credit to her. As is Bay, her stepdaughter, whom Anna adores as much as her own two girls. But everything changes the day Anna’s middle daughter’s beauty catches the eye of a stranger in a café…
Quiet, sensitive Nell doesn’t want to have her face on a billboard for all to see. But she knows her family desperately needs the money, and perhaps it would be nice to have her mother’s full attention for the first time since Bay arrived? Could this be the escape from her stepsister’s twisted games Nell has been longing for?
But the moment Nell steps in front of a camera, the devastating secret she and Bay have been keeping breaks the surface – and the bonds of this close-knit family forever. But with both Nell and Bay insisting they’re innocent, can either girl really be trusted?
As Anna’s perfect blended family unravels around her, she is forced to pick a side. To save onedaughter, Anna must betray another. Choosing the wrong girl will be more dangerous than anyone could ever have imagined…
An unputdownable read-all-night family drama that explores the dark consequences of sibling rivalry and the heart-wrenching emotional cost of keeping secrets from those you love. Perfect for fans of Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere and My Dark Vanessa.
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Clare lives with her husband and their two daughters in Surrey, where her little green shed at thebottom of the garden provides a haven for her writing life. Before becoming a writer, she enjoyed a career in television, as a researcher in documentaries and then as a script editor in drama at the BBC and Channel Four, where her love of storytelling took hold.
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Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews
First, I want to thank Clare Boyd, Bookouture, and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
Clare Boyd’s The Pretty One goes inside and shows you what the modeling world is really like. It is an extremely eye opening book that is incredibly dark.
There are so many important life lessons and important topics in The Pretty One. Some are self mutilation, rape, loosing your virginity, infidelity, etc.
Oh there was a point in this book where I was just livid. Nell was being told that her size was too big and they would have to promote her another way! A size 10 in the USA is not fat by any means. Putting someone down for their weight messes with their self esteem big time. I should know as I was once 303lbs.
Clare’s strongest writing has to be the very climatic ending of the book.
The Pretty One is broken up into sections of the book.
Like Nell Clare was into modeling and had her share of horror stories as well.
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