Every Vow You Break
Julia Crouch
Every Vow You Break
The Wayland family - Lara and Marcus and their three children - leave England to spend a long, hot summer in Trout Island, Upstate New York. Lara, still reeling from an abortion that Marcus insisted on, hopes the summer away from home will give her time to learn to love her husband again. A chance meeting at a party reacquaints the family with Marcus's old actor friend, Stephen, with whom Lara once had an affair. Lara feels herself drawn towards Stephen and they pick up their secret relationship where they left off. Lara knows she's playing a dangerous game; what she doesn't know is that it's also a deadly one.
3.7 out of 5 based on 3 reviews
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Fiction |
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General Fiction |
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Paperback |
| Pages |
384 |
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| Date of Publication |
June 2012 |
| ISBN |
978-0755378012 |
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The Wayland family - Lara and Marcus and their three children - leave England to spend a long, hot summer in Trout Island, Upstate New York. Lara, still reeling from an abortion that Marcus insisted on, hopes the summer away from home will give her time to learn to love her husband again.
A chance meeting at a party reacquaints the family with Marcus's old actor friend, Stephen, with whom Lara once had an affair. Lara feels herself drawn towards Stephen and they pick up their secret relationship where they left off. Lara knows she's playing a dangerous game; what she doesn't know is that it's also a deadly one.
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Reviews
The Guardian
Laura Wilson
“No wham-bam kick-off here, but Crouch excels at creating an atmosphere of low level menace, slowly ratcheting up the tension to full-on horror for another terrific page-turner.”
20/04/2012
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The Daily Mail
Carla McKay
“Crouch is adept at chronicling the breakdown of family relationships and exploring damaged personalities.”
15/03/2012
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The Sunday Times
John Dugdale
“Crouch blends social comedy with a thriller plot, and is equally good at both; but she devotes far too much time to the former, so that, instead of being the climax of slow-built suspense, the eventual threat to Lara comes across almost as an afterthought in this lopsided novel. Frustratingly, it could be a genuine page-turner, if 100 fun but diversionary pages were cut.”
03/06/2012
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