The Festival

Name: The Festival
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah J Naughton
ISBN: 9781409193784

Author: Sarah J Naughton

Narrator: Karen Cass

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Trapeze

Published: 01/21/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Film, Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Women Sleuths, Crime, Psychological, Women

Synopsis

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'Dazzlingly inventive'
Sunday Times

'Gripping and powerful'
Cara Hunter

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FOUR WOMEN.

Orly, Lenny, Mel and Thea have been best friends since school. But now it is 20 years later and inevitably they have drifted apart.

ONE WEEKEND.

It is Lenny's 40th birthday, plus Orly and Mel need cheering up, so Thea suggests a weekend away at a festival in their hometown. It's a chance for them all to reconnect.

NOT ALL OF THEM WILL SURVIVE.

But their holiday soon takes a sinister turn, and not all of the friends will leave the festival alive...

About Sarah J Naughton

Sarah J Naughton grew up in Dorset, on a diet of tales of imperiled heroines and wolves in disguise. As an adult her reading matter changed but those dark fairytales had deep roots. Her debut children's thriller, THE HANGED MAN RISES, featured a fiend from beyond the grave menacing the streets of Victorian London, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa award. THE FESTIVAL is her fourth psychological thriller for adults.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Whispering

Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com The Festival is a gripping read about four women who have been friends since they were at school. We meet Orly at the wake after her husband’s funeral. She is a broken woman who has had to nurse her sick husband for so long and is now alone. At the wake are h......more

Goodreads review by Liz

The Festival is a right old page turner as ever from this author I just sat down and read it in one sitting. A group of friends trying to recapture their youth one last time after one of them suffers a loss. A festival, lots of drink and lots of secrets makes for one hell of a weekend. I loved it, so......more

Goodreads review by Catherine

Not for me but know many people that loved this. Slow throughout and too many characters for my reading taste, strong ending though. Particularly the last chapter.......more

Goodreads review by John

I laughed out loud at the ending.......more

Goodreads review by Mellisa

Orly, Lenny, Mel and Thea. Friends for over 20 years. Once so close, now slowly drifting apart. To reconnect, they decide to go to a festival they went to as teenagers. Once there, the friends start receiving threatening texts, and feel like they are being watched. Four friends have turned up at the......more

Quotes

Dazzlingly inventive Sunday Times

A meticulously plotted exploration of friendship, foe-ship and the lies that bind, which builds to a gripping and powerful conclusion Cara Hunter

The perfect dose of thrills and suspense, this will keep you engrossed to the very end Heat

Original and stylish... will keep you guessing to the last page Sharon Bolton

We couldn't put this thriller down . . . brilliant Closer

Tautly thrilling . . . This has hit thriller written all over it Evening Telegraph

Gripping, tense, taut and brilliant. You'll be begging your friends to read it so you can discuss it over and over again Rebecca Reid

grips like a vice, with characters which leap from the page. Naughton's depiction of motherhood from different perspectives is as refreshing as it is evocative Rachael Blok

A taut, tense thriller packed with emotion A.J. Park