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Rock Paper Scissors

Pages
304
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

Adam and Amelia Wright's marriage is quietly falling apart, so when they win a weekend away at a converted chapel in the remote Scottish Highlands, it feels like a last chance to fix things — or an ending in disguise. Adam has face blindness and cannot reliably recognize even his own wife, which makes the isolated, snowbound retreat more disorienting still.

As the couple mark their tenth anniversary, the trip reveals itself to be no accident. Chapters alternate with a series of anniversary letters that peel back a decade of a marriage neither partner has told the whole truth about, and it becomes clear that someone has engineered this weekend for reasons of their own.

Alice Feeney's twisty domestic thriller is a story about the lies inside a marriage and how little we can truly know the person we've promised our life to.

About the author

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Alice Feeney

Alice Feeney is the New York Times and Sunday Times million-copy bestselling author of eight novels. Including Sometimes I Lie, His & Hers, Rock Paper Scissors, Daisy Darker and Beautiful Ugly. Her books have been translated into thirty-nine languages, and have been optioned for major screen adaptations, with His & Hers coming to Netflix in 2025 starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal, and produced by Jessica Chastain's Freckle Films. Alice was a BBC journalist for fifteen years before becomin...

Characters

Adam WrightProtagonist

A man with face blindness who cannot reliably recognize his own wife during a fraught anniversary trip.

Amelia WrightProtagonist

Adam's wife, whose decade of marriage secrets surface across a series of anniversary letters.

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