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Hard to believe this was a debut novel. The writing is polished, the plot is tightly wound and the dialogue sparkles.

I think the prologue was meant as an enticing promise of a clever thriller with spy-adjacent skullduggery ahead, but it almost lost me because it felt competent but generic.

By contrast, being in Sarah’s head as she suffered through a dinner party with rich arsehole that her husband is trying to win as a client, was electrifying, and that was before the bomb went off.

I want a lot more of Sarah.