Good Neighbours

Trade Paperback

Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world. But menace skulks among this exclusive enclave.

When the Wilde family arrive, they trigger their neighbours worst fears. Dad Arlo s a gruff has-been rock star with track marks. Mum Gertie s got a thick Brooklyn accent, with high heels and tube tops to match. Their weird kids cuss like sailors. They don t fit with the way Maple Street sees itself. Maple Street s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder a lonely professor repressing a dark past initially welcomed Gertie, but relations plummeted during one summer evening, when the new best friends shared too much, too soon. By the time the story opens, the Wildes are outcasts. As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and Rhea s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes. Suddenly, it is one mother s word against the other s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood.

Riveting and ruthless, Good Neighbours is a chilling, compulsively readable novel that looks toward the future in order to help us understand how we live now.

'This book. This book. This book. Already been loaned 2 times, read and returned. Just like the rest of us, you will tear through it.' Sarah Jessica Parker

'Insanely creepy, wildly entertaining and razor-sharp.' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

'A blistering satire of suburban life with serious emotional stakes. A fantastic literary thriller.' Sarah Pinborough, Sunday Times #1 bestselling author of Netflix s Behind Her Eyes

'One of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I've ever read. Langan cuts to the heart of upper middle class lives like a skilled surgeon.' NPR

'You have to read Good Neighbours. All of it the characters, the setting, the sinkhole, the heat made this book the masterpiece that it is. Real and sad and almost painfully moving, Good Neighbours is a novel I will never forget.' Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law