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Crush

9781782271987

Crush

  • ISBN 13:

    9781782271987

  • ISBN 10:

    1782271988

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 11/08/2016
  • Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
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Summary

A chilling 1950s suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession—and the slippery slope to murder
 
Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother, and her alcoholic father-in-law, 17-year-old Louise Lacroix is captivated by a glamorous American couple who moves to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of color, good humor, and easy living in drab 1950s Léopoldville—a place straight out of Louise’s dreams.  
 
Louise is thrilled when she successfully convinces the couple to hire her as their maid. But once she is under their roof, their model life starts to fall apart. Painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear, and a dark obsession begins to grow . . .

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