Rock Paper Scissors

About the book

Adam and Amelia Wright win a weekend retreat to a remote, converted chapel in the Scottish Highlands, hoping the trip will salvage their failing ten-year marriage. Adam lives with face blindness, a neurological condition that prevents him from recognizing anyone, including his wife. As a snowstorm traps them inside the freezing building, the narrative shifts between their perspectives and a series of anniversary letters written by Amelia over the past decade. These letters reveal long-held secrets, lies, and the reality that one spouse is not telling the truth about how they won the trip.

This psychological thriller serves readers who enjoy domestic suspense built on unreliable narration and structural twists. Fans of the genre read this for the atmospheric isolation and the technical puzzle of figuring out which character is manipulating the other. You walk away with a dark portrait of how a marriage can be dismantled by resentment and a specific understanding of how prosopagnosia affects a person’s perception of trust and identity.

Details

Published

2021

Publisher

Flatiron Books

ISBN

9781250851109

Language

EN