2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022 One life changing decision: your husband or your one true love? ---------------- On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below 'The Paper Palace' - her family's holiday home in Cape Cod. As she dives beneath the water she relives the passionate encounter she had the night before, against the side of the house that knows all her darkest secrets, while her husband and mother chatted to their guests inside... So begins a story that unfolds over twenty-four hours and fifty years, as Elle's shocking betrayal leads her to a life-changing decision. A PAGE-TURNING SUMMER READ FOR FANS OF WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING AND LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE ---------------- Readers have been gripped by THE PAPER PALACE: ***** 'I devoured this book in a couple of days' ***** 'I fell in love with the characters' ***** 'A heart-rending love story filled with so many complications' Sunday Times Bestseller, September 2022 I was absolutely immersed and gripped and I'm devastated to have finished it' Marian Keyes '**A beautifully constructed, wonderfully intelligent and beguiling novel, rich with a multitude of pleasures' William Boyd **'**Beautifully written, richly compelling' Rachel Joyce 'Enticing, assured and multi-layered, it introduces a major new voice in American fiction . . . A marvel' Cressida Connolly **'**Absolutely phenomenal novel - dazzling writing and utterly addictive. Read it' Rosamund Lupton 'A tense, evocative tale' Observer )