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By Margot Livesey

A taut emotional mystery approximately love, obsession and the secrets and techniques that pull a kinfolk apart.

Donald believes he understands all there's to grasp approximately seeing. An optician in suburban Boston, he rests guaranteed that he and his spouse, Viv, who works on the neighborhood stables, will reside out quiet lives with their young ones. Then Mercury—a stunning younger racehorse—enters their lives and every little thing changes.

Viv’s pal Hilary has inherited Mercury from her brother after his mysterious death—he used to be driving Mercury overdue one afternoon and the pony again to the stables by myself. whilst Hilary first brings Mercury to board on the stables each person there's struck through his good looks and prowess, rather Viv. As she rides him, Viv goals of competing with Mercury, rebuilding the targets of grandeur that she held for herself earlier than relocating to the suburbs. yet her daydreams quickly morph into eating wish, and her infatuation with the thoroughbred quick escalates to obsession.

By the time Donald is aware the swap that has come over Viv, it's too past due to forestall the approaching destiny that either their activities have wrought for them and their family. A fantastically crafted, riveting novel concerning the ways that relationships should be disrupted and, eventually, destroyed through obsession, secrets and techniques and ever-escalating lies.

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