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Nothing Without Me

by Helen Monks Takhar
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Fame is a deadly game... Even if you win, you lose. The dark, razor-sharp new thriller from the author of That Woman and Such a Good Mother. 'A whip-smart thriller about the price of fame' My Weekly 'Plunges readers into the cutthroat world of Hollywood, peeling back the veneer of celebrity and deftly exposing the dark side of fame and ruthless ambition' Lindsay Cameron 'A timely thriller' Woman's Own 'A pulse-pounding rollercoaster through the shadows of the silver screen' Jaclyn Goldis ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ April Eden is about to have the night of her life. The Vanished Woman, the film she wrote and directed is up for a raft of major awards. Her leading lady, Essie Lay, is on the cusp of a stunning comeback after the disturbing scandal that ended her small-screen career a year before. When Essie messages April to say she can't face the ceremony, April presumes nerves and goes to her Hampstead mansion to persuade her to attend. Instead, April finds Essie dead in her swimming pool. In that moment, April makes an agonising decision, which will force her onto a course of action she couldn't have imagined. If she is to find out what happened – and protect her own freedom – April is going to find herself face to face with some of the most powerful people in her industry, unforeseen dangers, and discomfiting truths from Essie's and her own past. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Readers LOVE Nothing Without Me: 'I loved the way this was written, it's a slow burner that builds alongside a feeling of dread...Dark, extremely powerful and my jaw dropped on several occasions' 'I always read Helen Monks Takhar's books in one sitting because I NEED to know what happens next!'

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    March 28, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780008566371

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      • ISBN: 9780008566371
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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 22, 2024
      Monks Takhar (Such a Good Mother) explores the dark side of celebrity in this diabolically plotted and ferociously feminist psychological thriller. April Eden and her best friend, disgraced former national sweetheart Essie Lay, are favored to win British Film Association awards for The Vanished Woman, a movie starring Essie that April wrote and directed. It’s a huge win for April, who’s fought for years to break through as a female filmmaker, so when Essie messages April before the ceremony to say she’s staying home, April and her boyfriend, Jags, stop by the actor’s Hampstead mansion to change her mind. Instead, they discover a gown-clad Essie face down in her pool with champagne and pills nearby. Jags convinces April to leave Essie for someone else to deal with and attend the awards ceremony as though nothing happened, but when morning breaks and the news hasn’t, the couple return to find Essie and the intoxicants gone—along with Essie’s passport. Paranoia seeps into April’s first-person-present narration, while expertly timed flashbacks from April and Essie’s alternating perspectives gradually reveal the women’s fraught history, adding dimension and context to the central mystery. Exquisitely rendered, realistically damaged characters help make the novel’s jaw-dropping twists feel earned rather than contrived. Liane Moriarty fans, take note: this is a must-read. Agent: Hellie Ogden, WME.

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