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Afterwards, it was the door she would remember. It was open, she kept saying to the police. I should have known something was wrong.
This was it. The culmination of all her hopes, dreams, and meticulously plotted revision strategies. One of the oldest and most prestigious of colleges in one of the oldest and most prestigious centers of learning in all the world—Oxford University’s famous Pelham College. And now, her new home for the next three years.
She had the kind of beauty that hurt your eyes if you looked at her for too long, but made it hard to tear your gaze away. It was, Hannah realized, as if a different kind of light were shining on her than on the rest of the room.
not alone, exactly, for you’re never alone in a room filled with a thousand books. But when she is alone with the books.
In books, a bad thing might happen on page 207, that was true. But it would always happen on page 207, no matter what. And when you reread, you could see it coming, watch out for the signs, prepare yourself.
Because the fact is that the case against John Neville rested on her evidence—and that’s something no one has ever allowed her to forget.
Maybe it wasn’t only John Neville who stole April’s life. Maybe she has done the same.
“He thinks Neville was innocent,” Emily says at last. “He thinks… he thinks they made a mistake.”
That It Girl? Oh, she’s thick as two short planks—she wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her dad’s money. He’s like, one rung down from Warren Buffett or something.
They’ll pull your life apart and stick it back together with vomit and shit, but it’ll still be more beautiful than you ever thought possible.”
Ryan’s antipathy to April was real—but it wasn’t because April was rich and beautiful and had life handed to her on a plate. At least, it wasn’t just that. Ryan had hated her because of what they were doing together.
