Not Bad People

It’s New Year’s Eve. Three 30-something women - Aimee, Melinda and Lou - best friends for decades, let off sky lanterns filled with resolutions: for meaning, for freedom, for money. After the glowing paper bags float away, there’s a bright flare in the distance. It could be a sign of luck - or the start of a complete nightmare that will upend their friendships, families and careers.

The next day, the newspapers report a small-plane crash - two victims pulled from the wreckage, one a young boy. Are the three friends responsible? Aimee thinks they are, Melinda won’t accept it and Lou has problems of her own. It’s a toxic recipe for guilt trips, shame, obsession, blackmail and power games.

They’re not bad people.

But desperate times call for desperate measures.

An enthrallingly twisty, sharply funny and deliciously unputdownable novel of old resentments and new secrets - and what happens when friendship buckles under pressure.