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A couple's pleasant little life is upended by the revelation that their son was switched at birth in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before.Pete Riley stays at home; his partner, Maddie, is the breadwinner. He spends his days pacifying their rambunctious son Theo and browsing parenting blogs, where no concern is too trivial.Then, one day, a knock at the door. Miles and Lucy, a posh and near-perfect couple, tell Pete something shocking: Theo isn't his son. Their children were switched at the hospital.At first, the couples are determined to reach a mutual agreement. They're all nice, rational people; surely they can sort this out between them. But soon their precarious arrangement--of babysitting, play dates, and shared parenthood--begins to erode under the weight of perceived slights, hidden anxieties, and petty jealousies.



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JP Delaney

JP Delaney is a British writer of psychological suspense. His novel THE GIRL BEFORE was an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller and sold over a million copies in 40 countries. The follow-up, BELIEVE ME, was also an international bestseller, as was his third, THE PERFECT WIFE. His fourth standalone psychological thriller, PLAYING NICE, will be published in summer 2020.JP Delaney has previously written bestselling fiction under other names. The Carnivia Trilogy, a series of three standalone but interlinked thrillers set in present-day Venice and written under the name Jonathan Holt, was published in more than 20 countries. For more information, visit www.jpdelaney.co.uk or follow @jpdelaneywriter on Facebook.



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