The choice / Gillian McAllister.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020Edition: First American editionDescription: 361 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593188002
- 0593188004
- Anything you do say
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Main Library | Fiction | McAllist Gillian | Available | 33111009644556 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Wrong Place, Wrong Time and Just Another Missing Person comes a captivating, ingenious novel about a woman who must make an impossible decision....
"A Sliding Doors thriller with a moral dilemma at its heart. Brilliant."--Claire Douglas, author of Last Seen Alive
It's the end of a night out and Joanna is walking home alone. Then she hears the sound every woman dreads: footsteps behind her, getting faster. She's sure it's him--the man from the bar who wouldn't leave her alone. So Joanna makes a snap decision. She turns, she pushes. Her pursuer tumbles down the steps and lies motionless, facedown on the ground. Now what?
Addictive and compelling, The Choice follows the two paths Joanna's future might take, depending on the choice she makes. If she calls the police right away, she can save the man's life. Yet doing so puts her own innocence at risk, as she waits for judgment on a charge of assault and the hope that her husband and everyone she loves will stand by her. But if she runs and goes home as if nothing has happened, no one will ever know. No one saw her do it, and it's only up to Joanna to keep quiet...forever.
"Almost unbearably tense. "-- The New York Times Book Review
"First published in 2018 by Penguin Books/Penguin UK under the title Anything You Do Say"--Title page verso.
"Joanna is an avoider. So far she has spent her adult life hiding bank statements and changing career aspirations weekly. But then one night Joanna hears footsteps on the way home. Is she being followed? She is sure it's him; the man from the bar who wouldn't leave her alone. Hearing the steps speed up Joanna turns and pushes with all of her might, sending her pursuer tumbling down the steps and lying motionless on the floor. Now Joanna has to do the thing she hates most - make a decision. Fight or flight? Truth or lie? Right or wrong?"--Publisher description.