Disclaimer: The astonishing Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller, perfect for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal

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If someone had told me the entire plot before I had read the book, I would have probably not bought it and would have labeled it a woman's type of novel. But then there's the twist — she never actually had an affair; the man raped her at knifepoint and made her take sensual pictures for him, and she went along with him because her son was asleep in the next room and she didn't want him to get hurt. Knight also tells the woman’s (Catherine’s) story in second person, while the author of the revealing novel, Stephen, his story is told in first person.

Mas o facto de querer chegar ao final do livro para conseguir desvendar todo o mistério em torno daquelas férias em Espanha me aguçaram o apetite pela sua leitura e não larguei o livro até que o terminei.So I got pretty annoyed and DNFed it, but I decided to skim to the end to see if there wasn't something I was missing.

Convinced the author's revenge tactic will tear her family apart, Catherine becomes obsessed with finding out who has written it, and why. I read a fair amount of crime fiction, and this book really stood out as clever, original, while quite tragic as well. Cathrine discovers an intriguing novel on her bedside table but is soon horrified to learn that she is one of the key characters. So the London setting of this debut novel from a former film documentary maker had ground to make up from the start.Inevitably the reader keeps turning the pages with ease but I found it hard to progress past the fact that this was one very lonely and increasingly sinister old man's edited take on a life that he and wife, Nancy were never privy to and consequently biased with his own grief-stricken slant on things. Idly picking it up the book entitled Perfect Stranger with the standard disclaimer; any resemblance to persons living or dead scored through with red pen. But it is a story that the one person who would have been able to tell is dead and despite its significant bearing on her husband and son, Catherine has never uttered a word of to anyone. The reason I enjoyed this book so much was the way that Renee Knight skilfully played on my emotions, changing my opinion of all of the characters who populate this book with an ease that left me reeling.