This is another cautionary tale by Andrea Mara about the possible consequences of carelessly using social media. Lauren is a psychologist with two daughters; her husband has left her and moved in with a woman who lives two doors along, she has an unreasonable boss at work, and a particularly difficult client. She finds release from her stressful life in posting on social media lots of comments and pictures of her daily happenings.
While she and her daughters are holidaying in Italy, Lauren takes a photograph of a young woman sitting on a beach and posts it to Snapchat, saying: “*All* the envy on my morning run - this is #howIwishIspentmytwenties”.”. She then shares the picture to Facebook and Twitter. She ignores her 13- and 15- year old daughters’ advice that she should not take photos without the subject’s knowledge or consent, telling them this was just a ‘candid’ shot’, completely harmless to anyone. The daughters are right, of course, and the proverbial can of beans which has been opened makes for another tension filled thriller in Andrea Mara’s dark, nerve wracking and compulsively readable style.
Lots of classic thriller style twists and turns, and an impossible (for me) to guess outcome!
Published by Crimson of Poolbeg Press Ltd
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