'You will probably need to read it in as close to one sitting as possible' SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING DENZEL WASHINGTON AND JULIA ROBERTSįINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020Ī DAILY TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEARĮveryone is talking about LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple - and vice versa? What has happened back in New York? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another? These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter.īut with the TV and internet down, and no phone service, the facts are unknowable. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory' OBSERVERĪ magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrongĪmanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. 'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have still not quite shaken off the unease' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE
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