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This Perfect World

This Perfect World

Psychological ThrillerDomestic Thriller
Pages
288
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equally fortunate friends. But Laura's perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy — the girl Laura and her friends bullied mercilessly at school.

Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown, and Mrs Partridge wants Laura's help to get her released. As Laura reluctantly gets drawn back into the past, she is forced to face the terrible consequences of her cruelty.

Even as her secrets are revealed, so too is another, even more devastating truth, and the perfect world Laura has so carefully constructed for herself begins to fall apart.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

TenseDarkMysterious

Genres

Psychological Thriller Domestic Thriller Contemporary Literature Drama Mystery Thriller

About the author

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Suzanne Bugler

Suzanne Bugler is a British novelist who lives in south west London. She published two young-adult novels, Staring Up at the Sun (2006) and Meet Me at the Boathouse (2007), before her adult debut, This Perfect World (2010), a Richard & Judy Book Club selection. She has since written The Child Inside (2012) and The Safest Place (2013), all novels of family and domestic life.

Characters

Laura HamleyProtagonist

A woman with a seemingly perfect life, forced to confront the consequences of bullying a schoolmate.

Heddy PartridgeSupporting

The girl Laura bullied at school, now hospitalized after a breakdown.

Violet PartridgeSupporting

Heddy's mother.

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