{"product_id":"what-we-swallowed-alexandra-briar-9798195811396","title":"What We Swallowed: A Novel of Secrets and Sisters","description":"\u003cb\u003eShe doesn't drink. She hasn't in seven years. So how did she wake up next to a body with no memory of the night?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNadia Hale has built a life on clarity. A million-pound wellness brand. A groundbreaking research project two weeks from launch. A reputation for composure that has held through every difficult thing she has ever carried - and she has carried more than anyone knows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen she wakes up at a luxury retreat on the Cornish coast, and her best friend is dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer phone shows a text she doesn't remember sending. A witness places her at the scene. A bottle of wine sits empty on the table. And the investigating detective is watching her the way people watch someone they have already decided about. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNadia does the only thing she knows how to do: she investigates. She works through the retreat's eleven guests one by one - the fraudulent financier, the ambitious influencer, the photographer with a secret, the publicist who has been quietly betraying her for months. Each of them is hiding something. None of them, she becomes increasingly certain, killed Clara. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhich means she might have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat We Swallowed\u003c\/b\u003e is a psychological mystery about the evidence we build against ourselves - and the silence we inherit from the people who love us most. It is a story about two sisters, one mother, and a secret that has been fifteen years in the keeping. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome books you finish and move on. This one you finish and sit with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Briar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195811396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d","brand":"Alexandra Briar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801478803711,"sku":"9798195811396","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-we-swallowed-alexandra-briar-9798195811396","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}