Synopsis
If most men say they’re one of the good guys, then why are so many women afraid to walk alone at night?
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'Groundbreaking. Hall’s take on a very contemporary subject is challenging, revelatory and controversial' – Sunday Times
'Razor-sharp, spine-tinglingly convincing and unputdownable.' - Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True
'One of the most daring and intriguing writers working today' – Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
'I devoured this book' – LisaTaddeo, author of Three Women
'Scorching, smart and soaked in feminist rage' – Ellery Lloyd, author of The Club
'A dark, dazzling shock to the system' – Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End
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Cole is the perfect husband: a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel’s career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.So when Mel leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him.
Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie.
Lennie has made the same move for similar reasons. She is living in a crumbling cottage on the edge of a nearby cliff. It’s an undeniably scary location, but sometimes you have to face your fears to get past them.
As their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, it soon becomes clear that they don’t know each other very well at all.
This is what happens when women have had enough.
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'One of the Good Guys is definitely one of the good ones' – Val McDermid, author of the Karen Pirie series
'An intriguing mix of psychological thriller and contemporary feminist fable' – Daily Mail
'This book will hook you from the first page' – Alice Feeney, author of Daisy Darker
'A bold and on-point feminist thriller about gendered violence with Gone Girl twistiness and narrator unreliability' – Victoria Selman, author of Truly, Darkly, Deeply
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN: 9781035018123
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 197 x 130 mm