Why am I passionate about this?
I moved around non-stop as a kid, attending a dozen schools by age eleven. As a result, once I stayed put long enough to make real friends, I stuck to them like glitter glue. As a reader and writer, I canāt get enough stories about female friendships, whether rock-solid or fraying. My latest novel involves childhood friends whose loyalty is stretched like a pair of latex gloves yanked off at a crime scene. The book grew out of a meme I saw on Facebook, captioned: āReal friends help you hide the bodiesā. My first thought was: who would I help? Straight off, I thought of my oldest friends.
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Why did Elka love this book?
I adore unreliable narratorsāand here we have two, a pair of best friends on a dream backpacking vacation. Something terrible happens on their travels. Even worse, tragedy struck the last time they backpacked together. Worst luck ever? Or something more sinister?
I love the dynamics between this bookās flawed besties and the growing uncertainty about who can be trusted. This is one twisty read thatās deliciously creepy. It left me feeling lucky to have good friends in real life.
2 authors picked We Were Never Here as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ REESEāS BOOK CLUB PICK ā¢ āThis book is every suspense loverās dream and it kept me up way too late turning pages. . . . A novel with crazy twists and turns that will have you ditching your Friday night plans for more chapters.āāReese Witherspoon
A backpacking trip has deadly consequences in this āeerie psychological thriller . . . with alluring locales, Hitchcockian tension, and possibly the best pair of female leads since Thelma and Louiseā (BookPage), from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd.
A Marie Claire Book Club Pick ā¢ā¦