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He thought he knew everything about her until she went missing.
Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life: devoted to her wonderful husband, Marc, and caring for her two beautiful daughters. But now, held in a room against her will, Alexandra is forced to think about all she's lost, and imagine how Marc and her daughters are coping in the wake of her disappearance. She's shown news clips of Marc, desperately appealing to the public for information on her whereabouts. She tortures herself with visions of her family's devastated new reality. And as she envisions Marc's distress, she can't help but remember their courtship, their marriage—all that he saved her from and all that they've built together.

Marc's pain is visceral. He thinks of nothing but her. Even when the police discover Alexandra's bloody belongings by the river, turning their missing-persons case into a murder investigation, he cannot accept that she is lost to him. He shifts from total despair to frantic action, embarking on his own journey through the dark maze of secrets she kept and passions he never understood. Following a trail that leads him to find answers to questions he never meant to ask, he's forced to confront how frighteningly little he's grasped about the woman he loves.

EXHIBIT ALEXANDRA is a shocking psychological portrait, an original and unrelenting thriller that ultimately proves how unknowable even those closest to us can be.

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He thought he knew everything about her until she went missing.
Before she disappeared, Alexandra Southwood lived an average, happy life: devoted to her wonderful husband, Marc, and caring for her two beautiful daughters. But now, held in a room against her will, Alexandra is forced to think about all she's lost, and imagine how Marc and her daughters are coping in the wake of her disappearance. She's shown news clips of Marc, desperately appealing to the public for information on her whereabouts. She tortures herself with visions of her family's devastated new reality. And as she envisions Marc's distress, she can't help but remember their courtship, their marriage—all that he saved her from and all that they've built together.

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EXHIBIT ALEXANDRA is a shocking psychological portrait, an original and unrelenting thriller that ultimately proves how unknowable even those closest to us can be.
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        A husband, horrified at his beloved wife's disappearance, begins to question their entire marriage, and his very reality, in Bell's assured debut.Alexandra and Marc Southwood have a wonderful marriage of 13 years and two beautiful little girls, Charlotte and Lizzie. When Alex doesn't come home one night, Marc is flummoxed. The North Yorkshire Police aren't immediately concerned, but when she hasn't returned a day later and they uncover her bloody clothing, Marc fears the worst. As the police investigate, they turn up shocking things that Marc never knew about Alex, leading him to do some investigating of his own. The book is narrated entirely by Alex: she makes it clear that what she's writing, presumably while in captivity, are guesses about Marc's actions based on how well she knows him as well as her access to things like a recording of Marc's phone call to the police and his credit card statement; she also gives us glimpses into the early days of their marriage. Interspersed with Alex's narration are letters from Amelia Heldt, an old friend and performance artist in New York who expresses an undeniable yearning for Alex. Bell paints a convincing portrait of a woman struggling with society's tendency to put a man's needs and desires over those of women and the guilt that accompanies a mother's longing for fulfillment outside of marriage and children. Alex is passionate and complex, and her almost aggressive idealism can grow tiresome, but her yearning to be something "more" is palpable, leading her to blur the lines between life and art. For readers into controversial performance art, which Alex especially admires, and art in general, there's a lot to chew on, but even if not, the truth behind Alex's disappearance is a doozy, and the finale is satisfying while offering plenty of food for thought. Is Alex an unreliable narrator? Of course she is, but this is no bait and switch. Bell gives us all the clues and dares us to follow them to the shocking end.This smart, mirror maze of a thriller bristles with sharp edges, twisting familiar Gone Girl themes into Bell's own intense creation.

        COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        “A lot of what I’m writing almost definitely never happened. I wasn’t there, obviously. I was missing.” So says Alexandra Southwood, a University of York art history lecturer who has vanished. Early on, British author Bell signals that her provocative debut thriller—centering on Alexandra and Marc, her husband, who refuses to stop searching for her—isn’t going to be just another missing person mystery. But the full extent of her audacity only becomes evident toward the end of this ingenious optical illusion, which may leave some readers gasping in admiration and others angry at being played. The more the devastated Marc learns about the woman to whom he’s been married for years, all the while struggling to comfort and maintain some semblance of normalcy for the couple’s two young daughters, the more he’s forced to face the stomach-churning prospect that he may never really have known her at all. On one level a gripping page-turner and on another a disturbing exploration of identity, art, and decency, Bell’s daring performance can’t be ignored. Agent: Marilia Savvides, Peters Fraser & Dunlop (U.K.).

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        February 1, 2018
        Marc Southwood, along with his two young daughters, is devastated when his wife, Alexandra, vanishes during her evening commute. Marc's insistence that Alexandra is in danger is confirmed when police find her blood-soaked belongings abandoned on a riverbank. Responding to rumors of Alexandra's marital discontent, and questioning the absence of her passport, detectives focus suspicion on Marc. In contrast, Alexandra's interspersed accounts of what happened support Marc's claims that the Southwoods remain deeply in love. But their story begins to prickle with hints of resentment as Bell gradually chronicles the couple's life together, from Alexandra's impulsive abandonment of her spot in an elite Chicago art program to remain with Marc in York, England, to the dramas of their growing family. Furthering the growing sense of unease, letters from Alexandra's friend Amelia, a famous performance artist, reveal Marc's desperation for Alexandra's attention and her unsettling pathological determination to cross any lines to further her art. A moody, gut-wrenching tale of domestic ennui, feminism, and identity, recommended for literary-thriller devotees and book groups.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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