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Sweat

Sweat

Summary

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSING

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All Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best.

Nothing could break their intense love for one another, not Liam’s obsessive desire for physical perfection or his relentless control of every aspect of Cassie’s life. Until the day he pushes Cassie far beyond her limits, and she walks out of their flat and away from their toxic relationship for good.

Two years on and Cassie is stronger, fitter, healthier than ever before. And then she sees him – Liam – those green eyes, those stirring muscles. Something inside her flips.

But she holds the power now.

It’s Liam’s turn to sweat.


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PRAISE FOR EMMA HEALEY'S ELIZABETH IS MISSING

‘Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting’
OBSERVER

‘A riveting psychological thriller’
STYLIST

‘Utterly compelling’
ROSAMUND LUPTON

‘Will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators,real mystery at its compassionate core’
EMMA DONOGHUE

‘A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp’
DEBORAH MOGGACH

***READER REVIEWS***

'I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a tense read'
'Different from anything I have read before'
'What a book!'
'So compelling'
'A dark, slickly written tale'
'I couldn't put this book down'

Reviews

  • Taut, compulsive, and unsettling ... SWEAT had me holding my breath until the final, brilliant end
    Jennie Godfrey

About the author

Emma Healey

Emma Healey grew up in London and completed her first degree in bookbinding. She then worked for libraries, bookshops, art galleries and universities before studying for the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2010. She is the author of Whistle in the Dark, and Elizabeth is Missing, which was a Sunday Times Bestseller, won the Costa First Novel Award 2014, and was made into a BBC film starring Glenda Jackson. She lives in Norwich with her husband, daughter and cat, and regularly volunteers for Vision Norfolk with a group of visually impaired, and incredibly imaginative, creative writers.
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