THE FIFTH LETTER
Book ID/图书代码： 03540015B84316
English Summary/英文概要： When four women decide to spend a week together in a holiday house by the beach, they devise a
plan to get to know one another better, a way to reconnect after life has pulled them apart over the
years. They decide to each write an anonymous letter sharing their deepest secrets. The letters
share everything from fears about marriage problems and financial woes to secret addictions and
secret crushes. But it’s the fifth letter that is the most disturbing. An extra letter that shouldn’t exist.
A letter that reveals one woman’s secret obsession with someone else within the group. And there is
no way of telling which woman wrote the letter, or which woman is now in danger from someone
she thought was her friend.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 四个女人决定在一幢海滨度假屋里度过一周。她们制定了一个计划以增进彼此间的了解，帮助她们在分隔多年之后重新建立连接。她们决定每人写一封匿名信，分享各自最隐蔽的秘密。这些信件中分享了一切，包括对婚姻问题的恐惧、财政危机、秘密的成瘾问题和秘密的爱恋……但出现的第五封信却令人不安。这是一封不应该存在的信件。这封信中揭开了小团体内一个女人迷恋另一个人的秘密。她们无从知晓是哪个女人写了这一封信，也不知道她们之中的谁正受到她朋友的威胁……（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：The premise and its execution will grab readers and refuse to let go. Readers may pick this one up to see how Moriarty’s writing compares to her sister Liane’s wildly popular novels, but they’ll race to the end as a credit to Nicola’s fine sense of pacing and suspense. An author to watch. (Booklist)
About the Author/作者介绍： Nicola Moriarty，学生，母亲，游泳教练，作家，现居住在悉尼西北部。从事过许多不同的职业。五年前的某天开始决定写作第一部小说，但中途搁浅。2年后，决定写作一部浪漫悲喜剧小说。经历的3年的写作和修改，终于完成了第一部小说。目前正在休假照顾4个月大的女儿，并为成为高中英语、戏剧教师进行学习。
Nicola Moriarty is a student, mother, swimming teacher and now writer who lives in Sydney’s North West. She has been an actress, a (terrible) waitress, an (equally terrible) bartender in a London pub, a marketing coordinator and a door-to-door sales person. One day, about five years ago she decided to try and write her first novel, a thriller. After 10,000 words the plot had become so complicated that even she couldn’t understand what was going on, and so that manuscript and her potential writing career was abandoned. Two years later she decided to start again, this time with a tragic romantic comedy (at least that’s what she thinks it is).
After three years of writing and re-writing in between giving birth twice, changing jobs three times, attempting to run a gift hamper business and deciding to start a teaching degree at Macquarie University, her first novel has finally been completed.
She is currently on leave from her job as a swimming teacher to look after her four-month-old daughter and studying part time to become a high school English and Drama teacher.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK / Penguin, US / William Morrow, the Australia / HarperCollins. German / Piper, Dutch / De Kern.
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