Book description
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. Suzanne Bugler
lives in South-West London with her husband and two sons. She has also
written two novels for young adults: Staring up at the Sun
and Meet Me at the Boathouse
.
