You’ve got one week to read by the pool and you want to make it count. If you’re struggling to unwind and need something to hook you from the get-go, here are my top modern page-turners. From literary thrillers to domestic dramas, each is a story so engrossing you’ll race through it.
In fact, I’d probably take two.
Strangers by Belle Burden
There’s already a TV adaptation of this in the works starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and no wonder. This bestselling memoir by Wasp-y East Coast heiress Belle (her grandmother was Babe Paley, a Manhattan socialite who was friends with Truman Capote) about her divorce is unputdownable. One day in the middle of the pandemic, Burden discovered out of the blue that her nice, reliable hedge fund manager husband was having an affair. But then, even worse, he upped, left and basically ghosted her, and their three children. What had she done? Were there signs she missed? And how much can we feel sorry for a person with a multimillion-dollar New York apartment and a luxurious second home in Martha’s Vineyard?
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
