The Things We Do To Our Friends

  • Emily Glenister

  • Thriller; Dark Academia

  • January 2023

    • World Rights: Viking, PRH

You'd die for them...
​They'd KILL for you.

What is the cost of an extraordinary life if others have to pay?

Clare arrives at the University of Edinburgh with a secret. This is her chance for a blank slate - to finally become who she was meant to be.

And then she meets Tabitha.

Tabitha is charismatic, beautiful and intimidatingly rich. Soon Clare is sucked into her enigmatic circle of friends and their dizzying world of champagne on rooftops and summers in France.

Her new life has begun.

Then Tabitha reveals the little project they're working on, a project they need Clare's help with. And Clare can't say no.

Because they know what she did...

  • A SUNDAY TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER

  • WOMAN’S WEEKLY BOOK CLUB PICK

  • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR 2023

  • LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE

  • TOP TEN eBOOK BESTSELLER

  • ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023

  • ONE OF APPLE’S BEST OF THE MONTH

  • ONE OF FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT FICTION

  • HEAT BOOK OF THE WEEK

Selected Praise

“Rainy Edinburgh is beautifully evoked, class is interrogated, the characters are well rounded and some of the choppier moments will have your heart racing ... Heather Darwent has a great career ahead of her as a thriller writer”
— The Times
“Quick, smart and satisfying.”
— ​Wall Street Journal
“Seamlessly blends Gone Girl and Promising Young Woman. Smart, sophisticated, seductive”
— S J Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep