The Change
eBook - ePub

The Change

A Novel

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Change

A Novel

About this book

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK 

"The Change is like a guttural rage scream (and somehow a soft, tearful hug) of a book, and I couldn't have loved it any more." --Emily Henry

Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town. 

"A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You’ll love it."--New York Times bestselling author Marian Keyes

"Miller triumphs...THE CHANGE is that rare treat: a suspenseful story with great pacing, memorable characters, and an engaging voice. Fantastic in every way, this fierce anthem against misogyny is a smash."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A pointed, punchy, and potent thriller...wry and clever, serious and exacting, and masterfully suspenseful."--Booklist (starred review)

In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment…

After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead—a gift she’s inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities.

On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett Osborne has just witnessed the implosion of her lucrative career and her marriage. She hasn’t left her house in months, and from the outside, it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed. But Harriett’s life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis.

Ambitious former executive Jo Levison has spent thirty long years at war with her body. The free-floating rage and hot flashes that arrive with the beginning of menopause feel like the very last straw—until she realizes she has the ability to channel them, and finally comes into her power.

Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girl whose body was abandoned beside a remote beach. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies, and to the town’s most exclusive and isolated enclave, a world of stupendous wealth where the rules don’t apply. With their newfound powers, Jo, Nessa, and Harriett will take matters into their own hands…

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Information

Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9780063144064
Print ISBN
9780063144057

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Gone to Seed
  4. Hot and Bothered
  5. The Quiet Life
  6. Josephine Levison’s Thirty-Year War
  7. The Girl in Blue
  8. The Purification of Harriett Osborne
  9. The Twins
  10. Hurling Begonias
  11. Why Amber Craig Turned to Arson
  12. They Walk Among Us
  13. Culling Pointe
  14. The Chief
  15. Picket Fences
  16. On Top of the World
  17. Claude Marchand Plays Her Hand
  18. The Spark
  19. Laverne Douglass Gets What She’s Owed
  20. Faith
  21. Rosamund Harding Wasn’t Herself
  22. Invasive Species
  23. Going Rogue
  24. Where Do All the Girls Go?
  25. Jo Sets a Bridge Ablaze
  26. Whatever It Takes
  27. The First and Last Time Mandy Welsh Broke a Promise
  28. Mayday
  29. Newsnight
  30. Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
  31. The Day Harriett Finally Opened Her Eyes
  32. Whales
  33. The Others
  34. Defiled
  35. Éminence Grise
  36. Juliet Rocca’s Last Dish
  37. Part Three
  38. The Voices
  39. When Faith Reid’s Serpent Held Its Tongue
  40. The Monster
  41. Burn It Down
  42. Epilogue
  43. Acknowledgments
  44. About the Author
  45. Copyright
  46. About the Publisher

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