Among Friends - Hal Ebbott
Hal Ebbott
- Pages · 320 pages
- Publication Date · 02/07/2026
- Genre · Fiction: special features
`A hard diamond of a novel . . . I have not stopped thinking of it since' - Coco Mellors`Every sentence keeps you hanging in the air, waiting for the next punch to the gut' - Miranda Cowley Heller`Packs a huge emotional punch. I couldn't put it down' - Daily Mail`A living thing . . . A huge achievement' - Financial TimesPerfect lives hide terrible secretsHaving emerged from a childhood of poverty and neglect, Amos now has a life that others envy: a brilliant wife, a golden daughter, and a friendship that has anchored him for thirty years. All of that is set to change. In the course of one fateful weekend in a beautiful house upstate, Amos's life will be undone by a shocking act of violence. In its aftermath, Amos must ask: when your world collapses, what - and who - will you sacrifice to survive?`Bracingly honest and affectingly intimate . . . Upends its characters' lives so ruthlessly and revealingly that it is hard not to take pleasure in a false facade being finally smashed' - The Guardian`Masterly' - John Banville
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