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Soon

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During the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but tension is brewing underneath the surface.

There is an unusual bond uniting the two families — one that forced their meeting and sustains their relationship. And one that threatens to destroy it. You see, the Lamptons and Hallwrights share something, but it's something neither family is willing to give up. As the vacation progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that there are some important secrets that need to be kept quiet; secrets that could ruin them all if they became public; and secrets that might impinge their moral sensibilities . . . 


In Soon, Charlotte Grimshaw takes readers on a journey through the world of privilege, power, and politics, exposing the dark side of human nature. This is an exhilarating and thought-provoking novel, in the vein of The Dinner and Gone Girl, that questions how far people will go to protect themselves and all they hold dear.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 21, 2013
      This taut suspense novel eschews conventional catharsis in a study of a man corrupted by proximity to power. Simon Lampton's connection to New Zealand's Prime Minister David Hallwright and David's wife, Roza, drew Simon and his wife into circles of power and influence that might otherwise have been denied to them; the cost is continual exposure to a toxic environment of smug entitlement, back-biting rivalries, barely veiled racism, and the charismatic prime minister's brand of affable corruption. When journalist Arthur Weeks's threat to expose an old shame ends in a homicide, Simon is forced to acknowledge the depths to which he has sunk. While Simon and his family are presented by Grimshaw (Singularity) as flawed but perhaps redeemable, the same cannot be said of the loathsome prime minster and his cronies, who are illuminated by a very unflattering light. Readers expecting traditional nemesis to take familiar form should look elsewhere, but people seeking a tightly plotted, incisive depiction of the corrosive effects of power will find time spent reading this novel well invested. Agent: Caroline Dawnay, United Agents.

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