Cover Story - A Novel

Netflix''s Inventing Anna and Hulu''s The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist''s scam. A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade , New York Post , Shondaland, E!, Fortune , PopSugar, and more! "It''s exciting, it''s surprising, it''s satisfying, it''s darkly funny, and it will keep you guessing."--Linda Holmes for Today.com After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her financial struggles and lost scholarship. Cat''s solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat''s suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora''s life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cat''s glamorous lifestyle, Cat''s perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world. A whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Rigetti, RIGETTI SUSAN
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2023
• EAN: 9780063072060
• ISBN: 978-0-06-307206-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Epistolary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Sea stories, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Epistolary fiction, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: City Life, FICTION: Epistolary *, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean