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The Rayburn Affair: A Novel
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Expected 1 Sep 26Art, ambition and desire collide when a struggling academic becomes entangled in the life and marriage of her literary idol, from the author of Stargazer.
By day, Dr Ruth Morgan lectures on ' the new frontier of storytelling' at East Toronto University. By night, she toils away at a collection of short stories, fantasising about a literary career to rival that of the iconic Shelby Rayburn, internationally renowned and widely hailed as the voice of Ruth's generation of women.
When Shelby and her husband, Oscar, make an appearance at an annual faculty party, Ruth can't believe her luck. The trio immediately hit it off, and an intoxicating intimacy develops between them, underwritten by a simmering sexual tension.
Everything changes when Shelby makes Ruth an offer she can't refuse - one that she can't tell anyone about, including Oscar. As boundaries blur and secret alliances form, the dynamic becomes riddled with distrust and threatens to implode. Ruth and Shelby need each other, but each has their own agenda when it comes to friendship, love and literary stardom.
Deepening her exploration of female friendships, art and fame, award-winning author Laurie Petrou returns with a suspenseful campus novel examining what it means to be a creator in an age where notions of authorship, relationships and notoriety have become dangerously undefinable. Perfect for readers who enjoyed The Rachel Incident, Luster or Conversations with Friends, as well as fans of Jodi Picoult.
By day, Dr Ruth Morgan lectures on ' the new frontier of storytelling' at East Toronto University. By night, she toils away at a collection of short stories, fantasising about a literary career to rival that of the iconic Shelby Rayburn, internationally renowned and widely hailed as the voice of Ruth's generation of women.
When Shelby and her husband, Oscar, make an appearance at an annual faculty party, Ruth can't believe her luck. The trio immediately hit it off, and an intoxicating intimacy develops between them, underwritten by a simmering sexual tension.
Everything changes when Shelby makes Ruth an offer she can't refuse - one that she can't tell anyone about, including Oscar. As boundaries blur and secret alliances form, the dynamic becomes riddled with distrust and threatens to implode. Ruth and Shelby need each other, but each has their own agenda when it comes to friendship, love and literary stardom.
Deepening her exploration of female friendships, art and fame, award-winning author Laurie Petrou returns with a suspenseful campus novel examining what it means to be a creator in an age where notions of authorship, relationships and notoriety have become dangerously undefinable. Perfect for readers who enjoyed The Rachel Incident, Luster or Conversations with Friends, as well as fans of Jodi Picoult.
256 pages, Paperback
Expected publication September 1, 2026
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Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
I spend a lot of my time complaining about AI. Every so often, I have the self-awareness to look up and think to myself “hmm, is this what it feels like to live through historic times?”. Then I get back to complaining. I’ve read my fair share of humanity-ruining tech sci-fi, but The Rayburn Affair isn't futuristic and it isn't science fiction. It's a modern day story that involves AI, which, shockingly enough, is what reality looks like these days.
The Rayburn Affair tells the story of Dr. Ruth Morgan, an aspiring writer working as an English professor. At a house party, she meets her literary idol, author Shelby Rayburn, and quickly becomes close friends with Shelby and Shelby's husband Oscar, a (slightly less) famous photographer. Their bond is intense and intimate, constantly testing the boundaries of what both friendship and marriage should look like.
It’s a slow start. As with most NetGalley requests I put in, I'd forgotten what the book was about by the time I got access, so I went in blind, constantly looking for hints as to what had gotten me intrigued. Ruth and Shelby’s shared interest in writing unlikeable women led me to wonder if Petrou’s intent was to make them unlikeable themselves. I’m pretty convinced that Shelby is just Sally Rooney, whose characters truly are unlikeable. Unlike them, Ruth and Shelby made sense as people. Despite being far from perfect, they had just enough sincerity to latch onto, so I cared about them anyway. And yet, for the first half of the book, these musings were few and far between. I began wondering when the big thing that had made me interested in the first place was going to happen.
And then, a bit after the halfway mark, things picked up. Oscar’s pseudo-feminist male artist persona began to crack (expected, but done well) and the idolization-turned-friendship took a turn. I’ll admit I was apprehensive about the whole AI bit; would Petrou attempt thought-provoking commentary on art in a world with generative AI, or was it just a gimmick to boost sales? Ruth’s research supposedly focuses on the relationship between creative writing and AI, but she only wants tenure as an economic safety net, so the most we get are a few lecture snippets. At some point, she says of her students “in some ways experts in the AI they’d been using for years, had never delved into its origins”, which doesn’t quite add up timeline-wise, considering ChatGPT went public in November of 2022 and the book’s references to COVID place it at around 2025.
Ultimately, though, Petrou came through. It’s impossible to explain exactly how without giving away the ending, so I won’t, but it’s been on my mind ever since, which definitely ticks the thought-provoking box in my book (pun intended). On the scale of 3 stars for “okay” and 4 for “I liked it”, The Rayburn Affair falls somewhere in the middle. A bit of thinning out in the first half would do the book some good, but once the pace picks up, it’s an easy ride to the end.
(NetGalley ARC)
The Rayburn Affair tells the story of Dr. Ruth Morgan, an aspiring writer working as an English professor. At a house party, she meets her literary idol, author Shelby Rayburn, and quickly becomes close friends with Shelby and Shelby's husband Oscar, a (slightly less) famous photographer. Their bond is intense and intimate, constantly testing the boundaries of what both friendship and marriage should look like.
It’s a slow start. As with most NetGalley requests I put in, I'd forgotten what the book was about by the time I got access, so I went in blind, constantly looking for hints as to what had gotten me intrigued. Ruth and Shelby’s shared interest in writing unlikeable women led me to wonder if Petrou’s intent was to make them unlikeable themselves. I’m pretty convinced that Shelby is just Sally Rooney, whose characters truly are unlikeable. Unlike them, Ruth and Shelby made sense as people. Despite being far from perfect, they had just enough sincerity to latch onto, so I cared about them anyway. And yet, for the first half of the book, these musings were few and far between. I began wondering when the big thing that had made me interested in the first place was going to happen.
And then, a bit after the halfway mark, things picked up. Oscar’s pseudo-feminist male artist persona began to crack (expected, but done well) and the idolization-turned-friendship took a turn. I’ll admit I was apprehensive about the whole AI bit; would Petrou attempt thought-provoking commentary on art in a world with generative AI, or was it just a gimmick to boost sales? Ruth’s research supposedly focuses on the relationship between creative writing and AI, but she only wants tenure as an economic safety net, so the most we get are a few lecture snippets. At some point, she says of her students “in some ways experts in the AI they’d been using for years, had never delved into its origins”, which doesn’t quite add up timeline-wise, considering ChatGPT went public in November of 2022 and the book’s references to COVID place it at around 2025.
Ultimately, though, Petrou came through. It’s impossible to explain exactly how without giving away the ending, so I won’t, but it’s been on my mind ever since, which definitely ticks the thought-provoking box in my book (pun intended). On the scale of 3 stars for “okay” and 4 for “I liked it”, The Rayburn Affair falls somewhere in the middle. A bit of thinning out in the first half would do the book some good, but once the pace picks up, it’s an easy ride to the end.
(NetGalley ARC)
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
This is a novel about proximity — to talent, to fame, to power — and the quiet danger of wanting to be chosen by someone you admire.
The Rayburn Affair explores that fragile space between mentorship and manipulation with precision. Laurie Petrou places Ruth Morgan in the orbit of the very life she has imagined for herself, and the result is a story less about literary ambition alone and more about what happens when admiration becomes entanglement.
Ruth is an immediately compelling narrator: intelligent, observant, and deeply aware of her own longing to create something meaningful. Her fascination with Shelby Rayburn feels authentic — not naive, but recognisable. The novel understands the emotional vulnerability that sits beneath artistic ambition, particularly when success feels close enough to touch.
The dynamic between Ruth, Shelby, and Oscar is the novel’s core strength. Their connection is charged from the beginning, shaped by admiration, desire, insecurity, and subtle power imbalances that shift scene by scene. What initially reads as opportunity gradually reveals itself as something more complicated — a relationship built as much on need as on generosity.
One of the book’s most interesting threads is its engagement with authorship in the age of AI. Rather than offering simple commentary, the novel uses this theme to deepen its central question: who owns a story, and what does creation mean when influence, collaboration, and identity blur? These ideas mirror the emotional narrative, reinforcing the sense that boundaries — artistic and personal — are constantly being negotiated.
Shelby emerges as a particularly compelling figure. Charismatic, generous, and quietly opaque, she embodies the tension at the heart of the novel: the difference between supporting another artist and shaping them. The ambiguity is intentional and effective, allowing the reader to sit inside Ruth’s uncertainty rather than resolve it too quickly.
The pacing reflects the psychological arc. A measured opening gives space for the relationships to feel believable, which makes the later shifts land with greater impact. As secrets accumulate and alliances shift, the story tightens into something sharper — less about aspiration and more about authorship, ownership, and the cost of proximity to brilliance.
The Rayburn Affair is a thoughtful, quietly seductive campus novel that examines ambition, intimacy, and the unstable line between inspiration and erasure. It is particularly effective in how it captures the emotional complexity of creative life — the desire to be seen, the fear of being overshadowed, and the complicated power of being invited into someone else’s world.
The Rayburn Affair explores that fragile space between mentorship and manipulation with precision. Laurie Petrou places Ruth Morgan in the orbit of the very life she has imagined for herself, and the result is a story less about literary ambition alone and more about what happens when admiration becomes entanglement.
Ruth is an immediately compelling narrator: intelligent, observant, and deeply aware of her own longing to create something meaningful. Her fascination with Shelby Rayburn feels authentic — not naive, but recognisable. The novel understands the emotional vulnerability that sits beneath artistic ambition, particularly when success feels close enough to touch.
The dynamic between Ruth, Shelby, and Oscar is the novel’s core strength. Their connection is charged from the beginning, shaped by admiration, desire, insecurity, and subtle power imbalances that shift scene by scene. What initially reads as opportunity gradually reveals itself as something more complicated — a relationship built as much on need as on generosity.
One of the book’s most interesting threads is its engagement with authorship in the age of AI. Rather than offering simple commentary, the novel uses this theme to deepen its central question: who owns a story, and what does creation mean when influence, collaboration, and identity blur? These ideas mirror the emotional narrative, reinforcing the sense that boundaries — artistic and personal — are constantly being negotiated.
Shelby emerges as a particularly compelling figure. Charismatic, generous, and quietly opaque, she embodies the tension at the heart of the novel: the difference between supporting another artist and shaping them. The ambiguity is intentional and effective, allowing the reader to sit inside Ruth’s uncertainty rather than resolve it too quickly.
The pacing reflects the psychological arc. A measured opening gives space for the relationships to feel believable, which makes the later shifts land with greater impact. As secrets accumulate and alliances shift, the story tightens into something sharper — less about aspiration and more about authorship, ownership, and the cost of proximity to brilliance.
The Rayburn Affair is a thoughtful, quietly seductive campus novel that examines ambition, intimacy, and the unstable line between inspiration and erasure. It is particularly effective in how it captures the emotional complexity of creative life — the desire to be seen, the fear of being overshadowed, and the complicated power of being invited into someone else’s world.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Dr Ruth Morgan teaches at Toronto University, focusing on AI and its potential role in creative writing. She's put all her eggs in one basket: staying in academia, with some serious money invested in her education. There's two ways out: writing & publishing that bestseller, and/or tenure. Ruth knows she's not the highflyer - she's aware she should be writing research proposals, attending and initiating conferences and what not, but really all she wants is to write and be known by it, like her lifelong idol Shelby Rayburn.
When she meets Shelby, and Shelby's enigmatic husband Oscar, the instant connection is real. Ruth and Shelby become fast friends and slowly the reader gets to know husband & wife. As we see life "before Ruth" through Shelby's eyes, we know more than Ruth does, and while Ruth's alliance may or may not shift, so does our own impression of the characters. The book is brilliant in that. Themes like co-creation are interwoven - there's AI, obviously, and Oscar's work as an artist is also about co-creation with assistants as well as with women like Ruth, and of course reading a book is a form of co-creation too: the writer and the reader. Then there's ambition: there's no denying academia is a high-stakes ambitious environment, and the artists in this book (Shelby, Ruth, Oscar) are ambitious too and don't we all know success comes at a price? Counterpointed is Ruth's family: kind, and caring, two feet firmly on the ground, happy with here and now and realistic about what might be next.
It being a NetGalley advanced reader copy, I had no idea what to expect when I started reading and I while some plotpoints were still expected, others were not and I was in for the ride. Until the very end I did not know what would happen, how / if it would be resolved.
It's been a few days since I finished this novel, and I'm still thinking about the ending, the implications, the plot, which I mean as a big compliment.
Expected September 1st 2026
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in return for my honest opinion. I loved it.
When she meets Shelby, and Shelby's enigmatic husband Oscar, the instant connection is real. Ruth and Shelby become fast friends and slowly the reader gets to know husband & wife. As we see life "before Ruth" through Shelby's eyes, we know more than Ruth does, and while Ruth's alliance may or may not shift, so does our own impression of the characters. The book is brilliant in that. Themes like co-creation are interwoven - there's AI, obviously, and Oscar's work as an artist is also about co-creation with assistants as well as with women like Ruth, and of course reading a book is a form of co-creation too: the writer and the reader. Then there's ambition: there's no denying academia is a high-stakes ambitious environment, and the artists in this book (Shelby, Ruth, Oscar) are ambitious too and don't we all know success comes at a price? Counterpointed is Ruth's family: kind, and caring, two feet firmly on the ground, happy with here and now and realistic about what might be next.
It being a NetGalley advanced reader copy, I had no idea what to expect when I started reading and I while some plotpoints were still expected, others were not and I was in for the ride. Until the very end I did not know what would happen, how / if it would be resolved.
It's been a few days since I finished this novel, and I'm still thinking about the ending, the implications, the plot, which I mean as a big compliment.
Expected September 1st 2026
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in return for my honest opinion. I loved it.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Thanks to VERVE Books, Laurie Petrou and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an ARC of The Rayburn Affair long before it’s published! I think it’s the first book ever that I’ve stayed up all night reading, physically unable to put down and stayed with me for days after I finished it. Well, in my recent memory anyway. A one-sitting wonder!
Laurie Petrou dragged me into The Rayburn Affair with both hands and didn’t let me go until I unwittingly flipped to the acknowledgments. I devoured it voraciously page after page without a clue the end was rapidly approaching and let out the biggest wail to a silent house at 3am!!! Honestly, I don’t remember checking my progress for the last 30%. I blacked out, it swallowed me whole and didn’t let up. Spoiler alert: it still has me in a chokehold. I’ve been thinking about it constantly since Sunday morning and attempting to distract myself with several trips to the fictional boy aquarium!
It's books like The Rayburn Affair: A suspenseful and seductive campus novel exploring ambition, desire and power dynamics that keep me reading. Books that have the ability to transport you to places in the world you've never been and feel like you’re in the story too. In a relatively short book (256 pages), Petrou does a tremendous job world building. I feel like I've been to Toronto and to Shelby’s cabin in the snow, while never leaving my bed in 🇬🇧. What a trip!
I dare say The Rayburn Affair will still be in my mind when it’s out in August 2026, but I can’t wait to reread it. I’ve preordered my copy and I’ll be eagerly awaiting the opportunity to pre-order the audiobook and I plan to listen on release day!
The Rayburn Affair is out 27th August!
Laurie Petrou dragged me into The Rayburn Affair with both hands and didn’t let me go until I unwittingly flipped to the acknowledgments. I devoured it voraciously page after page without a clue the end was rapidly approaching and let out the biggest wail to a silent house at 3am!!! Honestly, I don’t remember checking my progress for the last 30%. I blacked out, it swallowed me whole and didn’t let up. Spoiler alert: it still has me in a chokehold. I’ve been thinking about it constantly since Sunday morning and attempting to distract myself with several trips to the fictional boy aquarium!
It's books like The Rayburn Affair: A suspenseful and seductive campus novel exploring ambition, desire and power dynamics that keep me reading. Books that have the ability to transport you to places in the world you've never been and feel like you’re in the story too. In a relatively short book (256 pages), Petrou does a tremendous job world building. I feel like I've been to Toronto and to Shelby’s cabin in the snow, while never leaving my bed in 🇬🇧. What a trip!
I dare say The Rayburn Affair will still be in my mind when it’s out in August 2026, but I can’t wait to reread it. I’ve preordered my copy and I’ll be eagerly awaiting the opportunity to pre-order the audiobook and I plan to listen on release day!
The Rayburn Affair is out 27th August!
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Big thanks to NetGally for this e-ARC!
As Shelby puts it in the book, this novel was 'the made up word, unput-downable'. I read it in one sitting!
In 'The Rayburn Affair' we follow Dr Ruth Morgan PhD, a lecturer in English and who explores the role of AI in fiction writing. Aspiring author Ruth in enamoured by famed literary fiction writer Shelby Rayburn, and in a delicious moment of kismet meets Shelby and her media lecturer husband Oscar at a faculty party.
What ensues is a heady story of friendship and betrayal with an underlying sexual tension between all three of our main cast - a will they, won't they situation that embroils the reader.
One of my favourite moments in this were the little glimpses we get into Shelby's inner world; although we primarily focus on Ruth, we get short moments from Shelby's past were we see her life prior to becoming a famed author, dive deeper into her relationship with Oscar, and also catch Ruth from an outsider's perspective, away from her own deep seated insecurity.
I loved Ruth - she is real, a young woman trying to make it as both an academic and a writer, who falls head over heels into a complex friendship with this beguiling older couple. I rooted for her the whole way through, even as she makes some questionable decisions.
My feelings on Shelby were more complicated - she is charming, kind but can also be manipulative. I love morally grey female main characters and Shelby is a wonderful example. I won't speak on Oscar to avoid any spoilers.
This book is perfect for fans of 'The Rachel Incident' or 'Cleopatra and Frankenstein'.
As Shelby puts it in the book, this novel was 'the made up word, unput-downable'. I read it in one sitting!
In 'The Rayburn Affair' we follow Dr Ruth Morgan PhD, a lecturer in English and who explores the role of AI in fiction writing. Aspiring author Ruth in enamoured by famed literary fiction writer Shelby Rayburn, and in a delicious moment of kismet meets Shelby and her media lecturer husband Oscar at a faculty party.
What ensues is a heady story of friendship and betrayal with an underlying sexual tension between all three of our main cast - a will they, won't they situation that embroils the reader.
One of my favourite moments in this were the little glimpses we get into Shelby's inner world; although we primarily focus on Ruth, we get short moments from Shelby's past were we see her life prior to becoming a famed author, dive deeper into her relationship with Oscar, and also catch Ruth from an outsider's perspective, away from her own deep seated insecurity.
I loved Ruth - she is real, a young woman trying to make it as both an academic and a writer, who falls head over heels into a complex friendship with this beguiling older couple. I rooted for her the whole way through, even as she makes some questionable decisions.
My feelings on Shelby were more complicated - she is charming, kind but can also be manipulative. I love morally grey female main characters and Shelby is a wonderful example. I won't speak on Oscar to avoid any spoilers.
This book is perfect for fans of 'The Rachel Incident' or 'Cleopatra and Frankenstein'.
March 7, 2026
The Rayburn Affair by Laurie Petrou is a compelling and emotionally layered novel that completely lived up to my expectations. I absolutely loved Stargazer, so I was thrilled to have the chance to read this upcoming release early - and it didn’t disappoint.
One of the things Petrou does so well is create characters who feel utterly real. She captures the many layers within people so that they come across as flawed, complex, and deeply believable. No one feels simplified or neatly defined, which makes the emotional dynamics of the story feel especially authentic.
What stood out most to me was how vividly the novel portrays the intensity of fast-forming friendships. Petrou perfectly captures that rush of connection - the excitement, the vulnerability, and the sense of emotional closeness that can develop so quickly. At the same time, she doesn’t shy away from showing how these relationships can shift and fracture, revealing the more complicated or even toxic sides that sometimes emerge beneath the surface.
I also appreciated how the story unfolds gradually. The pacing allows the tension and emotional stakes to build naturally, and I found myself increasingly drawn into the characters’ lives as their relationships evolved.
I won’t say too much about the plot because part of the joy of this book is discovering how everything develops, and I wouldn’t want to spoil that experience. What I can say is that if you enjoy novels that explore messy, complicated relationships and the emotional complexities of friendship, The Rayburn Affair is absolutely worth picking up. Petrou once again proves herself to be a thoughtful and perceptive storyteller.
One of the things Petrou does so well is create characters who feel utterly real. She captures the many layers within people so that they come across as flawed, complex, and deeply believable. No one feels simplified or neatly defined, which makes the emotional dynamics of the story feel especially authentic.
What stood out most to me was how vividly the novel portrays the intensity of fast-forming friendships. Petrou perfectly captures that rush of connection - the excitement, the vulnerability, and the sense of emotional closeness that can develop so quickly. At the same time, she doesn’t shy away from showing how these relationships can shift and fracture, revealing the more complicated or even toxic sides that sometimes emerge beneath the surface.
I also appreciated how the story unfolds gradually. The pacing allows the tension and emotional stakes to build naturally, and I found myself increasingly drawn into the characters’ lives as their relationships evolved.
I won’t say too much about the plot because part of the joy of this book is discovering how everything develops, and I wouldn’t want to spoil that experience. What I can say is that if you enjoy novels that explore messy, complicated relationships and the emotional complexities of friendship, The Rayburn Affair is absolutely worth picking up. Petrou once again proves herself to be a thoughtful and perceptive storyteller.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
I haven't been able to put this down for the past 24 hours. The dynamics between Ruth and Shelby, Ruth and Oscar, the trio together and apart, were really well built up and unraveled.
I actually went through it a bit with this book as I found the initial pacing slow and writing a bit impersonal and it was a bit harder to get into that I'd anticipated, however around the 20% through mark, this significantly picked up and it really came into its own, hence the 4 stars.
I think the subject of authorship, especially in the age of AI, was super interesting, and particularly Ruth's friendship with Shelby and Shelby as a character, very imperfect, were extremely well created. Really enjoyed it, despite the slower start.
ARC/Netgalley.
I actually went through it a bit with this book as I found the initial pacing slow and writing a bit impersonal and it was a bit harder to get into that I'd anticipated, however around the 20% through mark, this significantly picked up and it really came into its own, hence the 4 stars.
I think the subject of authorship, especially in the age of AI, was super interesting, and particularly Ruth's friendship with Shelby and Shelby as a character, very imperfect, were extremely well created. Really enjoyed it, despite the slower start.
ARC/Netgalley.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
As writers, and readers, we're all painfully aware of the peril of AI, and here, in this novel, Petrou explores that peril. As an academic myself, I found the realism of the employment issue for protagonist 'Ruth' to be a driving force in the novel. While, yes, it is a novel that takes a bit of time to warm up, characterisation is a key element, and the final part of the novel is quite satisfying. I enjoyed the writing very much, but felt it was a novel that could have been edited down, and this would have given the ending a bit more impact. Recommended, and my grateful thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
The Rayburn Affair was an enjoyable, character-driven read. While the writing is a little simplistic at times and the plot doesn’t always surprise, the characters feel genuinely believable and easy to like. I found myself invested in their relationships and emotional dynamics, which made up for the book’s quieter moments. Engaging and thoughtfully done overall.
3.5⭐️
Thank you Verve Books & NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
3.5⭐️
Thank you Verve Books & NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
A well-written book that builds up to the unexpected twists throughout. I particularly liked the discussion around AI and authorship.
The lengths Shelby and Ruth went to in pursuit of their individual success, often highlighted the unlikeable sense of being ‘used’ in a friendship. The ending left me feeling terrible for Ruth.
Thank you Verve Books, Laurie Petrou and NetGalley for the ARC!! ☺️
The lengths Shelby and Ruth went to in pursuit of their individual success, often highlighted the unlikeable sense of being ‘used’ in a friendship. The ending left me feeling terrible for Ruth.
Thank you Verve Books, Laurie Petrou and NetGalley for the ARC!! ☺️
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
If you haven’t read this writer’s first two books then I’d definitely recommend buying/loaning. Laurie Petrou is an amazing character writer and builds real unease. I’m grateful to NetGalley for this galley copy.
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