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Between Us by Mhairi McFarlane – book cover

Between Us: A Novel

By Mhairi McFarlane

When Joe and Roisin join their group of friends for a weekend at a country house, it's a triple celebration - a birthday, an engagement and the launch of Joe's shiny new crime drama on TV. For Roisin, it's a…

Release Date
2023
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Our Review

When Joe and Roisin join their group of friends for a weekend at a country house, it's a triple celebration – a birthday, an engagement and the launch of Joe's shiny new crime drama on TV. For Roisin, it's a chance to connect with the group of friends she made a decade before, working at Waterstones. But for Joe, it's a distraction as his writing career soars. As the weekend unfolds, tensions are revealed between the group and Roisin's sense of foreboding about her own relationship grows. And when the friends watch the first episode of Joe's drama, she realises that the secrets she told him are right there on the screen. But is that all he's used? What if the fictional hero's infidelity also isn't fictional after all?