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WHAT YOU DID by Claire McGowan -psychological thriller
Six friends have kept in touch since their university days. It is now twenty five years since
those hallowed days and they get together at Ali and Mike’s house for a celebration.
Mike is a corporate lawyer and works all hours god sends and a few more besides to
keep them in the style they are accustomed to. Ali volunteers for a women’s shelter
and has become a local media star by doing this.After the meal and a few drinks most
of the crowd had gone to bed, all being put up at Ali and Mike’s house and there are
a few stragglers still chatting. Ali having gone to bed herself, comes down for some
water and is horrified to find Karen staggering in from the garden cut and bleeding,
covered in grass saying that she has been raped….. by Mike- Ali’s husband. What
follows is her worst nightmare, one thing leading to yet another revelation. What
on earth is happening and what will happen to both Mike and her and her family?
OMG! This book is brilliantly written with the tension almost palpable. My heart
was beating faster and I found my self devouring page by page wanting to read
faster to find out what was happening. I felt for Ali and how everything in her
world was crumbling around her. This is one stunning read , one to keep you
on the edge of your seat whilst feeling anxious at the same time.
Wow! Just wow! 
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What You Did by Claire McGowan #WhatYouDid @inkstainsclaire @AmazonPub @EmmaFinnigan @damppebbles
#damppebblesblogtours Media Pack for Blog Tour, Monday 8th July to Friday 2nd August 2019 Book Blurb: A vicious assault. A devastating accusation. Who should she trust, her husband or her best friend?   It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty
years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a
wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend
makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.   When Karen staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatised, she claims that she
has been assaulted by Ali’s husband, Mike. Ali must make a split-second decision: who
should she believe? Her horrified husband, or her best friend? With Mike offering a
very different version of events, Ali knows one of them is lying, but which? And why?   When the ensuing chaos forces her to re-examine the golden era the group shared at
university, Ali realises there are darker memories too. Memories that have lain dormant for
decades. Memories someone would kill to protect. About Claire McGowan: Born in Northern Ireland in 1981, Claire McGowan studied in Oxford then lived overseas in
France and China. She is the author of standalone thriller The Fall, and the Paula Maguire
series, including The Lost, The Dead Ground, The Silent Dead, A Savage Hunger, Blood Tide,
and The Killing House. The Paula Maguire series was optioned by the BBC in 2014. A ten
-part radio drama written by Claire was broadcast on Radio 4 in early 2019, and as a
screenwriter she was selected as the 2017/18 Nickelodeon International Writing Fellow. Claire set up the Crime Thriller Writing MA at City University, London, and has also taught for the
Arvon Foundation, Guardian Masterclasses and at many literary festivals. As Eva Woods, she has published four women’s fiction novels, including the bestselling How
To Be Happy. Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/inkstainsclaire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClaireMcGowanAuthor/ Website: https://www.ink-stains.co.uk/ Purchase Links: Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-You-Did-Claire-McGowan/dp/1542007267/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561547467&sr=8-2 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Did-Claire-McGowan/dp/1542091330/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561547824&sr=8-1 Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/what-you-did/claire-mcgowan/9781542091336 Book Depository: https://www.bookdepository.com/What-You-Did-Claire-McGowan/9781542007269?ref=grid-view&qid=1561548006871&sr=1-2 Hive: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Claire-McGowan/What-You-Did/23919655 Publishing Information: Published in hardback, paperback, audio and ebook formats on 1st August 2019

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