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Whatever You Love

by Louise Doughty · 2010

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I study the photo in the same way that a spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organization. I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out what you love, then whatever it is, I am going to track it down and I am going to take it away from you.

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After the death of Laura's nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while, her inner turmoil is reopening the old wounds of her passionate love affair with Betty's father, David, and his abandonment of the family for another woman.

Haunted by her past and driven to a breaking point by her thirst for retribution, Laura discovers the unforeseen lengths she is willing to go to for love and vengeance.

Genre
British mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thiswomen’s fictionwomen’s fictionMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
griefgriefMore like thisLess of thisfamilyfamilyMore like thisLess of thismothersmothersMore like thisLess of thismurdermurderMore like thisLess of thispsychologicalpsychologicalMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisNetherlandsNetherlandsMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 307 pages

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