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Sister of Mine: A Novel
by Laurie Petrou
Published: 2018-08-07
Hardcover : 304 pages
Hardcover : 304 pages
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"Propulsive." ?Refinery29's "Best Psychological Suspense Novels to Read After Gone Girl"
"A twisty, claustrophobic nail-biter." ?Entertainment Weekly’s Hot Summer Thrillers
"Sibling rivalry on steroids." ?BookTrib
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a taut domestic ...
"A twisty, claustrophobic nail-biter." ?Entertainment Weekly’s Hot Summer Thrillers
"Sibling rivalry on steroids." ?BookTrib
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a taut domestic ...
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"Propulsive." ?Refinery29's "Best Psychological Suspense Novels to Read After Gone Girl"
"A twisty, claustrophobic nail-biter." ?Entertainment Weekly’s Hot Summer Thrillers
"Sibling rivalry on steroids." ?BookTrib
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a taut domestic suspense about the lies we tell to hold our lives together.
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Penny and Hattie, orphaned sisters in a small town, are best friends, bound together to the point of knots. But Penny, at the mercy of her brutal husband, is desperate for a fresh start. Willing to do anything for her older sister, Hattie agrees to help. A match is struck and a fire burns Penny’s marriage to the ground. With her husband gone, Penny is free, and the sisters, it seems, get away with murder. But freedom comes at a cost.
More than a year after the fire, a charming young man comes to town. Hattie and Penny quickly bring him into the fold and into their hearts but their love for him threatens the delicate balance. Soon long-held resentments, sibling rivalry, and debts unpaid boil over, and the bonds of sisterhood begin to snap. As one little lie grows into the next, the sisters’ secrets will unravel, eroding their lives until only a single, horrible truth remains: You owe me.
A compelling novel of suspense from a talented new voice, Sister of Mine asks us to consider the bonds of family, what it takes to commit the unthinkable, and how far you’ll go to protect the ones you love.
"A twisty, claustrophobic nail-biter." ?Entertainment Weekly’s Hot Summer Thrillers
"Sibling rivalry on steroids." ?BookTrib
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a taut domestic suspense about the lies we tell to hold our lives together.
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Penny and Hattie, orphaned sisters in a small town, are best friends, bound together to the point of knots. But Penny, at the mercy of her brutal husband, is desperate for a fresh start. Willing to do anything for her older sister, Hattie agrees to help. A match is struck and a fire burns Penny’s marriage to the ground. With her husband gone, Penny is free, and the sisters, it seems, get away with murder. But freedom comes at a cost.
More than a year after the fire, a charming young man comes to town. Hattie and Penny quickly bring him into the fold and into their hearts but their love for him threatens the delicate balance. Soon long-held resentments, sibling rivalry, and debts unpaid boil over, and the bonds of sisterhood begin to snap. As one little lie grows into the next, the sisters’ secrets will unravel, eroding their lives until only a single, horrible truth remains: You owe me.
A compelling novel of suspense from a talented new voice, Sister of Mine asks us to consider the bonds of family, what it takes to commit the unthinkable, and how far you’ll go to protect the ones you love.
Excerpt
I encouraged Hattie to take extra shifts at the salon, and urged her to read lots, after the fire. She needed to be kept busy, distracted. We were together again, stuck in time like bees in amber. One day she looked up from her book while I was straightening up the sitting room. ...
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Discussion Questions
1. How credible did you find the narrator to be? Did you feel like you feel like you can trust her to give you the whole story?2. In fiction, when “a stranger comes to town,” characters and relationships are often changed irreversibly. How did Jameson change Hattie and Penny?
3. Hattie and Penny carry many secrets between them. How do our secrets reinforce our relationships? How can they break them down? How does the added responsibility of being family change the weight of our secrets?
4. In the end, who is Penny protecting: herself or Hattie? Why?
5. When Penny calls Hattie and asks the unthinkable of her sister, is this self-preservation, punishment, or is she in some way allowing Hattie to redeem herself?
6. Who do you feel most demonstrates strength and weakness? Hattie, Penny, Jameson?
7. How does Elliot change Penny?
8. We like to think there is someone we could ask anything of. What does Penny and Hattie’s experience reveal about the potential aftermath of such a favor?
9. In the end, were the sisters ‘even’? Assuming Penny eventually gets out of jail, where do you see their lives, their relationship?
10. If you could hear this same story from another person’s point of view, who would you choose?
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