Speak Softly, She Can Hear

Patron Passport member Margaret Sager was kind enough to offer us this review of Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear. In gratitude (and as a normal part of our rewards program for members), we'll be giving Margaret her own copy of the Advance Reader's Edition of this Simon & Schuster title, on sale in March 2005 in hardcover at $23.00

The review:

This is a story of secrets and betrayal. Carol, a shy, overweight student at an exclusive New York City High School, decides on a dare to lose her virginity before graduation. She and her best friend set out to accomplish this on a ski weekend in Vermont but things go terribly wrong. The events of that night change Carol's life. This thriller continues for at least twenty years, and we grow to like Carol and share her burden as she lives with her horrifying secret, and ultimately is betrayed by those involved. Happily, truth triumphs in the end.

--Margaret Sager

Wally Lamb calls this a "sexy and suspenseful psychological thriller" and says it sits comfortably alongside Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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