The Vacation
Kate, her husband, and their three oldest friends and their families have gathered for a week at a stunning villa in the South of France — the kind of trip that's supposed to be an easy, sun-soaked celebration of a friendship that's lasted decades. Then Kate finds a text on her husband's phone that changes everything: he's having an affair, and the only clue to the other woman's identity points to someone inside their tight circle.
Rather than confront him immediately, Kate spends the rest of the vacation quietly watching, testing, and turning over every interaction for a tell — while trying to keep the truth from unraveling the trip for everyone else. As the days pass in the heat and forced togetherness of the villa, old grievances and new suspicions surface, and it becomes clear that Kate isn't the only one hiding something.
T.M. Logan's The Vacation (published in the UK as The Holiday) is a fast-paced psychological thriller about the fault lines that run under even the closest friendships, and how far people will go to protect what they can't afford to lose.
A wife who spends a week's holiday at a French villa quietly investigating which of her three closest friends her husband Sean is having an affair with.
Kate's husband, whose affair with one of her three closest friends is the secret the group's villa holiday unravels.
One of Kate's three closest friends on the holiday; a past history with Sean makes her one of Kate's suspects.
The friend who organized the villa holiday; ambitious, and hiding secrets of her own.
The one member of the friend group who has stayed single; her presence adds to the tension of the holiday.
Yes. The Vacation (published in the UK as The Holiday) is a standalone psychological thriller by T.M. Logan and does not belong to a series.
Yes. Under its UK title, The Holiday, T.M. Logan's novel was adapted into a four-part limited drama that aired on Channel 5/My5 in the UK in 2021 and on Spectrum in the US in 2022, and is also available on Netflix.