The Book of Goose

''A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout ¿ I loved it'' Charlotte Mendelson¿One of our finest living authors ¿ propulsively entertaining¿ New York Times¿Wonderfully strange and alive¿ Jon McGregorA propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons EndFabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agn¿ receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised ¿ the place that Fabienne helped Agn¿escape ten years ago. Now, Agn¿is free to tell her story.As children in a backwater town, they¿d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves ¿ until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agn¿on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agn¿can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of