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Waiting on Wednesday (Dec 16)

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Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.


My pick is a book called This Perfect World by Suzanne Bugler which will be available March 2010 by MacMillan. Here’s a bit about it from Fantastic Fiction…

Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equally fortunate friends. But Laura’s perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy – the girl Laura and her friends bullied mercilessly at school. Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown, and Mrs Partridge wants Laura’s help to get her released. As Laura reluctantly gets drawn back into the past, she is forced to face the terrible consequences of her cruelty. But, as her secrets are revealed, so too is another even more devastating truth, and the perfect world Laura has so carefully constructed for herself begins to fall apart. “This Perfect World” is the debut novel from a brilliant dark new voice.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? I really like the cover as well. How about you – what are you waiting for?

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  1. Synopsis made me think of that case of bullying in school and over the internet but the young girl ended up committing suicide. Senseless and Tragic! This does sound like a good book and hopefully the cruelty will take a different turn in this story.

  8. Yes, this sounds good.

    Personally, I am not really waiting for anything (well, I think a good friend has sent me a book so …). I am saving my December budget for January so I can buy several books I want for Beth´s What´s in a name challenge.