Go to Hachette Book Group home

Search

Site Preferences

Show prices in:

Promotion

Use code SPOOKY24 for 20% off sitewide! Exclusions apply.

By clicking “Accept,” you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies on your device as set forth in our Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy. Please note that certain cookies are essential for this website to function properly and do not require user consent to be deployed.

The Loyalties

A Novel

The Loyalties Open the full-size image

Contributors

By Delphine de Vigan

Formats and Prices

Price

$26.00

Format

Format:

  1. Hardcover $26.00
  2. ebook $13.99
  3. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $32.99 CAD

This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around July 21, 2020. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

Also available from:

Adults are as lost as the children they should be protecting, as the lives of four people trapped in a conspiracy of silence hurtle toward a desperate and devastating act.

Twelve-year-old Théo and his friend Mathis have a secret. Their teacher, Hélène, suspects something is not right with Théo and becomes obsessed with rescuing him, casting aside her professionalism to the point of no return.

Cécile, mother of Mathis, discovers something horrifying on her husband’s computer that makes her question whether she has ever truly known him.

Respectable facades are peeled away as the lives of these four characters collide, moving rapidly toward a shocking conclusion. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a lean, darkly gripping, and compulsively readable novel about lies, loneliness, and loyalties.

Genre:

  • "Taut and wrenching... A sense of foreboding rises as characters attempt to steer through their complicated routes, misgivings, and internalizations."
    Leah Strauss, Booklist
  • "If you're looking for a summer thriller, be sure to pick up a copy of The Loyalties."
    Grace Dearing, City Beat
  • "Packs a hefty emotional punch. It reminded me of Leila Slimani's terrific The Perfect Nanny."
    Bookseller
  • "Narrated with punch and pace. You're kept reading helplessly to the desperate cliff-hanger finish."
    Daily Mail
  • "The latest literary sensation."
    Daily Telegraph
  • "Delphine de Vigan coils these stories together in a taut, intense novel of secrets, lies, and the unknowable depths of others."
    Tatler
  • "One of the finest writers of psychological fiction in France today."
    France Magazine
  • "It's a deceptively simple novel---an impression enhanced by the unfussy prose, shorn of literary flourish or artifice---but a powerful, thought-provoking one."
    Country and Town House

On Sale
Jul 21, 2020
Page Count
192 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9780316451628

You May Also Like

The Hotel Nantucket
The Hotel Nantucket $18.99 $23.99 CAD
Golden Girl
Golden Girl $19.99 $25.99 CAD
Here Is the Beehive
Here Is the Beehive $26.00 $33.00 CAD
To Be Sung Underwater
To Be Sung Underwater $24.99 $31.99 CAD
Secrets to Happiness
Secrets to Happiness $21.99 $28.99 CAD

Delphine de Vigan

About the Author

Delphine de Vigan is the author of several novels, four of them available in English: No and Me, awarded the 2008 Prix des Libraires (Bookseller’s Prize); Underground Time, shortlisted for the 2009 Prix Goncourt; Nothing Holds Back the Night, awarded the Prix du roman Fnac, the Prix Roman France Télévisions, and the Prix Renaudot des Lycéens; and Based on a True Story, awarded the 2015 Prix Renaudot and the 2015 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. She lives in Paris.

Learn more about this author

Follow Little, Brown and Company: