Critiques en avant-première

When Bess Trumbull loses her plum White House job in an embarrassing public debacle and moves with her family from Washington, D.C. to Greyhill, her husband’s small hometown in Virginia’s genteel horse country, she finds herself at sea. And her twins, a girl and boy suddenly on the cusp of adolescence are constant reminders that her best mothering years may be behind her. Greyhill, a charming, picturesque jewel of a place that is a perennial fixture on those “America’s Best Small Town” lists, should be the perfect backdrop for Bess to reinvent herself. But when she becomes acquainted with Susannah “Cricket” Lane, the quirky, charismatic grande dame of the community, she discovers that the woman—and the town she reigns over—are not at all what they appear to be. As Bess discovers unsettling truths about Susannah and Greyhill at large, ones that bring her into the secrets of prior generations, she begins to learn how difficult it is to start over in a town that runs on talk, and that sometimes, the best way to find yourself is to uncover what everyone around you is hiding. But places like Greyhill stay that way by keeping outsiders out—so the closer Bess gets to the truth, the more she may be endangering those she holds dearest.