Whatever You Love

Louise Doughty

Aug. 2010 · Faber & Faber

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FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD
LONGLISTED FOT THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2011
Whatever You Love, from Louise Doughty - the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, now a major BBC 1 series - is a heart-wrenching psychological thriller about bereavement and revenge, desire and infidelity .
Two police officers knock on Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the man responsible.
Laura's grief also re-opens old wounds and she is thrown back to the story of her passionate love affair with Betty's father David, their marriage and his subsequent affair with another woman.
Haunted by her past, and driven to breaking point by her desire for retribution, Laura discovers the lengths she is willing to go to for love.

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Louise Doughty is the author of eight novels, most recently Black Water , which was published in 2016 to critical acclaim in the UK and US where it was nominated as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her previous book was the Top Ten bestseller Apple Tree Yar d, adapted for BBC One as a four-part series starring Emily Watson. Her sixth novel, Whatever You Love , was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also won awards for radio drama and short stories, along with publishing one work of non-fiction, A Novel in a Year , based on her popular newspaper column. She is a critic and cultural commentator for UK and international newspapers and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. She lives in London.