The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian

The Amateur is a new novel from Chris Bohjalian, the American writer behind The Flight Attendant. It is darkly funny and quietly devastating, and it turns on a single afternoon.

In 1978, in a quiet New York suburb, eighteen-year-old Mira Winston is a golf prodigy: sharp, charming and reckless, spending her summer at her parents' country club and carrying on an affair with a married man twice her age. Then one August day a freak accident on the course kills a classmate, and everything that follows, the trial and the years after it, gets tangled up with the choices Mira has already made.

A literary suspense novel about power, blame and the weight of a single moment, for readers of Bohjalian's The Flight Attendant and Clare Leslie Hall's Broken Country.

'Sharply funny, beautifully told and so moving on the way life can upend itself in a single moment. I adored it.' Clare Leslie Hall, author of Broken Country

'It turns over weighty subjects with grace and wry humour. It's a masterpiece.' Publishers Weekly