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By Swan Huntley

A spellbinding mental debut novel, Swan Huntley's We can be Beautiful is the tale of a filthy rich lady who has everything—and but can belief no one.

Catherine West has spent her whole existence surrounded through appealing issues. She owns an immaculate new york house, she collects positive paintings, she buys beautiful purses and garments, and he or she continuously redecorates her domestic. And but, regardless of all this, she nonetheless feels empty. She sees her own coach, she will get weekly massages, and sometimes she visits her mom and sister at the higher East facet, yet after damaged engagements and boyfriends who sought after in basic terms her funds, she is haunted through the terror that she'll by no means have a relatives of her personal. One evening, at an artwork commencing, Catherine meets William Stockton, a good-looking guy who stocks her impeccable style and love of attractiveness. he's knowledgeable, dependent, or even has a private connection—his mom and dad and Catherine's mom and dad have been pals years in the past. yet as he and Catherine develop nearer, she starts to come across unusual symptoms, and her mom, Elizabeth (now struggling with Alzheimer's), turns out to have in basic terms undesirable thoughts of William as a boy. In Elizabeth's previous diary she unearths an unnerving letter from a former nanny that cryptically reads: "We can't belief an individual . . . " Is William mendacity approximately his prior? And if that is so, is Catherine keen to sacrifice their appealing existence with a purpose to locate the reality? that includes a desirable heroine who longs for solutions yet is blinded through her personal privilege, shall we Be Beautiful is a glittering, seductive, totally spectacular tale of affection, funds, greed, and family.

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