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Fates and Furies

Fates and Furies

New York Times bestseller

Summary

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Enough betrayal, vengeance and sex to read like one of the Greek tragedies' Observer


'Devastatingly good' Guardian

'Astonishingly beautiful' Financial Times

'Addictive to read' Stylist

'Rich, lyrical and rewarding' Paula Hawkins


Every story has two sides.
Every relationship has two perspectives.

And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.

'Groff is a writer of rare gifts' New York Times

'Sexy and achingly beautiful' Good Housekeeping

'A really powerful novel' Barack Obama

'A book to submit to and be knocked out by' Meg Wolitzer

Reviews

  • Enough betrayal, vengeance and sex to read like one of the Greek tragedies
    Observer

About the author

Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix, and two short story collections, Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists.
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