Face Down

Some things you notice and file away. A phone, always placed face down. A husband
who steps into the garage to take his calls. Small things. The kind you don't let
yourself name.

When Nora Callahan picks up her husband's phone one ordinary Wednesday morning -
face down on the nightstand, the way it always is - she reads something she cannot
unread. What she discovers will unravel not just her marriage but her oldest
friendship, leaving her seven months pregnant, without an income, and more alone than
she has ever been.

She does not fall apart. She makes a list.

Methodical and clear-eyed, Nora begins to piece together exactly what was done to
her - and by whom. As her father's health fades and her due date approaches, she
builds a case, finds a lawyer, and starts to ask questions she should have asked years
ago: about the life she quietly built around other people, the art practice she let go
silent, and what, underneath everything, has always been hers.

Face Down is a novel about the small betrayals that precede the large ones -
about marriage and grief, about the friendships that define us and the ones that break
us, and about a woman who decides, in the wreckage of everything she trusted, to find
out what she is made of.

Perfect for readers of Celeste Ng, Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty, and
Jodi Picoult.