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'Compelling, creepy and cool . . . a Thelma & Louise for our times'<BR>PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train<BR><BR>'Fierce, fun, wild and enraging'<BR>CHRIS WHITAKER, author of All The Colours of the Dark<BR><BR>'Razor-sharp writing, frenzied pace, twists and turns - prepare for impact!'<BR>BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons In Chemistry<BR><BR>'Pump this into my veins. A modern day Thelma & Louise for lesbians who make Das Kapital jokes'<BR>MADELEINE GRAY, author of Green Dot<BR><BR>Decisions were made: I made them. Violence was done: I did it. Crime scenes were fled: I fled them. People were hurt: I hurt them. Someone was loved: I loved them. Not everything I did was bad. Just most of it.<BR><BR>A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone.<BR><BR>But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles's super-rich.<BR><BR>Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family's lavish mansion for her weekly lesson to discover, not the bored teenager she excepted, but pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from within the walls of the house.<BR><BR>Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.<BR><BR>Suddenly at the heart of a nation-wide manhunt, Evie finds that her mysterious companion, who refuses to speak, has quickly become the most important person in her upside-down life. Meanwhile, the press runs wild with Evie's story - anointing her the new Charles Manson, a blood thirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war.<BR><BR>Evie is - finally and disastrously - someone.<BR><BR>Droll, dark and deeply insightful, Killer Potential is an edge-of-your-seat break-neck ride, a queer love story, and a darkly funny critique of the horrors of late capitalism and how the stories we're sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.
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