Necessary People, Anna Pitoniak
Necessary People, Anna Pitoniak
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Necessary People

Author: Anna Pitoniak

Narrator: Vanessa Johansson

Unabridged: 10 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2019


Synopsis

A propulsive, "chilling" novel exploring the dangerous fault lines of female friendships (Lee Child), Necessary People deftly plumbs the limits of ambition, loyalty, and love.
One of them has it all. One of them wants it all. But they can't both win.
Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laser-focused Violet stays behind the scenes, always ready to clean up the mess that Stella inevitably leaves in her wake.
After graduation, Violet moves to New York and lands a job in cable news, where she works her way up from intern to assistant to producer, and to a life where she's finally free from Stella's shadow. In this fast-paced world, Violet thrives, and her ambitions grow -- but everything is jeopardized when Stella, envious of Violet's new life, uses her connections, beauty, and charisma to get hired at the same network. Stella soon moves in front of the camera, becoming the public face of the stories that Violet has worked tirelessly to produce -- and taking all the credit.
Stella might be the one with the rich family and the right friends, but Violet isn't giving up so easily. As she and Stella strive for success, each reveals just how far she'll go to get what she wants -- even if it means destroying the other person along the way.
"I literally couldn't stop reading." -- Stephen King"I love a book that is smart as hell and impossible to put down and this is IT." -- Jessica KnollNamed one of the Best Books of May by Marie Claire, Town & Country, Refinery29, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Bustle, CrimeReads, and O, the Oprah Magazine

About Anna Pitoniak

Anna Pitoniak is the author of Our American Friend, Necessary People, and The Futures. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked in book publishing, including as a senior editor at Random House. Anna grew up in Whistler, British Columbia. She graduated from Yale and lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on June 07, 2020

Four conspiracy, news worthy, ambitious, passionate, eternal darkness of spotless female rivalry stars! Meet with Stella makes you scream like Brando on Streetcar names desire but not for bringing her loved one back, it is for cursing her and putting nasty adjectives before her name! Because this cha......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on February 26, 2019

4 Stars Two women who are oh so different, yet each has what the other wants. Is it love or is it hate? Why it’s “Necessary People.” Stella is gorgeous, rich and popular, with family everyone wants. Violet is pretty, intelligent and hardworking. Stella is jealous of what Violet achieves; Violet is je......more

Goodreads review by JanB on July 04, 2021

Stella and Violet, who met in college, are the best of friends despite coming from two very different backgrounds. They are necessary to one another for very different reasons: Violet, who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, needs Stella for her wealth and connections, while Stella needs Violet......more

Goodreads review by Felicia on May 24, 2019

Bottom of the 9th 2 outs 3 balls 2 strikes Pitcher throws a fast ball right over the plate... Batter swings for his life, this is going to be the homer of his career... he swings so fucking hard that the bat flies out of his hands and soars into the stands, knocking out a toddler in the 4th row. That's ho......more

Goodreads review by Gabby on May 21, 2019

DNF @ 170 pages I have been trying to get into this book for weeks. I keep picking it up and putting it back down again and I really wanted to love it but I just feel so meh about it. I love thrillers, especially thrillers that revolve around female friendships where there i a competitive nature betw......more


Quotes

"That book-blurb saying 'I couldn't put it down' is usually bullshit, right? For me it was true of Anna Pitoniak's Necessary People. I literally couldn't stop reading. Murder, ambition, toxic friendship. What's not to like?"—Stephen King

"A chilling mix of charm, danger, suspense and surprises...You think you know where this book is going--but you don't."—Lee Child

"Gripping... Pitoniak delivers a pitch-perfect exploration of class, family, and female friendship."—People, Book of the Week

"I started reading Necessary People two hours ago and I am absolutely spellbound. I love a book that is smart as hell and impossible to put down and this is IT."—Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Favorite Sister

"Delicious...Thrilling...I was so mesmerized by this story that I took the longer subway route more than once so I'd have more time to savor it."—Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire (Best Women's Fiction of 2019 So Far)

"Pitoniak's riveting and gripping novel nails the big personalities, intense competition and high drama of TV newsrooms. I was sucked in by the dark friendship of these two ambitious women, and did not see the final twist coming!"—Alisyn Camerota, anchor of CNN's New Day and author of Amanda Wakes Up

"Smart and stylish...Pitoniak creates a compelling world of haves and have-nots that plays out in the cutthroat world of cable news. What begins as a sharp story about best friends--one who's had everything handed to her, the other who has almost ruthlessly made her own way--develops into a darker tale of rivalry, hubris, and deadly desire."—Town and Country

"A juicy thriller that will make you side-eye your friends and wonder if they're capable of doing crimes."—Cosmopolitan, Best Book of the Month

"A delicious story about the ambitions that can lift us up or tear us apart."—Mehera Bonner, Woman's Day

"What we love is that it's a story...you can escape into...Let's just say not everyone plays nice-and it's thrilling."
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