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Jun 8, 2015

Second Life, S.J. Watson

In his second novel after the acclaimed ‘Before I go to Sleep’ Watson focuses on the dangers of online relationships. Julia used to be an up and coming photographer until her lover’s death in a Berlin squat sent her running back to England and into marriage with dull dependable Hugh. Life with Hugh, a heart surgeon, and their adopted teenage son Connor is smooth sailing until news hits that Julia’s younger sister Kate has been found dead in a Paris alleyway. Connor is Kate’s son and Kate had been making moves to get him back. 

At the funeral the family meets Anna, Kate’s flatmate. Anna reveals that she and Kate used to frequent online chatrooms to meet men for sex. Frustrated at the lack of information from Paris and struggling to deal with Kate’s death; Julia starts frequenting those same sites trying to draw out her sister’s killer. This second life is intoxicating, addicting and Julia has no idea that’s she’s the one being drawn out into the open... 

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