Sister of Mine: A Novel - Softcover

Petrou, Laurie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443454281 ISBN 13: 9781443454285

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

When is a debt ever fully paid?

Penny and Hattie are sisters in a small town, bound tight to the point of knots. They share a secret they cannot escape, even while it pulls them apart. One night, a match is lit, and Penny’s terrible husband is killed – a marriage going up in flames, and offering the potential of a new life. The sisters retreat into their family home – a house of secrets and memories – and try to live in the shadow of what they put in motion. But Penny’s husband is not the only thing they are hiding, from the outside world and from each other. Under a cloud of long-held resentments, sibling rivalry, and debts unpaid, the bonds of sisterhood begin to crack. How long will Penny and Hattie demand the unthinkable of each other? How often will they say, “You owe me,” and when will it ever be enough? 

 

About this title

About the Author

LAURIE PETROU is an associate professor at the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled Between, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. She was the inaugural winner of the Half the World Global Literati Award in 2016 for her unpublished novel, Sister of Mine. 

Review

“Engrossing. . . . An unputdownable page-turner.” (A. J. Banner, USA Today–bestselling author of The Twilight Wife)

“Sharply conceived and skillfully accomplished, Sister of Mine is a stylishly suspenseful, vividly-told family saga thriller that’s as swiftly compelling as it is dark.” (Iain Reid, bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things)

“By turns taut and lyrical, often startling, always unpredictable, Laurie Petrou writes about the thorny challenges and gauzy longings of sisterhood and parenthood with brash immediacy and perilous insight. This book is a cracked mirror—sharp, disquieting, impossible to look away, refracting our worst fears and best hopes back at us.” (Elan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays)

“I devoured Laurie Petrou’s wonderful novel in a single sitting.  Laurie’s prose is stunning but it was the complicated relationship between the two sisters, and the secret that threatens to destroy them that had me furiously turning the pages. A fantastic debut novel.”  (Hollie Overton, bestselling author of Baby Doll and The Walls)

“As mesmerizing and powerful as the fire at its centre. Dark and riveting, flirting with a hint of the gothic, Sister of Mine is a pageturner that plunges deep into the wild and uncharted territory of family, need, and loyalty, and the strange, mirror-link of love and hatred.” (Grace O’Connell, author of Be Ready for the Lightning)

“A unique and complex story of sisterhood and secrets that ends with a twist you won’t see coming. . . . A fabulous read from start to finish.” (Wendy Walker, bestselling author of Emma in the Night)

“An addictive portrait of a fascinating, complicated, and, in the end, shocking relationship between two sisters. . . . A thrilling read.” (Cecilia Ekbäck, bestselling author of Wolf Winter and The Midnight Sun)

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1443454281
• ISBN 13: 9781443454285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272