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Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Scottish Sun
Win a copy of Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon in this week's Fabulous book competition
Scroll down to enter MUST-READ THRILLER Win a copy of Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon in this week's Fabulous book competition Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) AFTER escaping a cult together, Frida and her brother Gabriel have drifted apart. She hopes a luxe holiday will help them reconnect – until a woman is killed and Gabriel is named prime suspect. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 10 lucky Fabulous readers will win a copy of this new novel in this week's book competition But this isn't the first time he's been accused of murder. . . So gripping and so tense. 10 lucky Fabulous readers will win a copy of this new novel in this week's book competition. To win a copy, enter using the form below by 11:59pm on August 30, 2025. For full terms and conditions, click here.
The Irish Sun
2 days ago
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- The Irish Sun
Win a copy of Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon in this week's Fabulous book competition
Scroll down to enter MUST-READ THRILLER Win a copy of Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon in this week's Fabulous book competition AFTER escaping a cult together, Frida and her brother Gabriel have drifted apart. She hopes a luxe holiday will help them reconnect – until a woman is killed and Gabriel is named prime suspect. 1 10 lucky Fabulous readers will win a copy of this new novel in this week's book competition But this isn't the first time he's been accused of murder. . . So gripping and so tense. 10 lucky Fabulous readers will win a copy of this new novel in this week's book competition. To win a copy, enter using the form below by 11:59pm on August 30, 2025. For full terms and conditions, click here.
Wall Street Journal
24-07-2025
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- Wall Street Journal
‘Our Last Resort' Review: Bound by the Past
Frida Nilsen often refers to Gabriel Miller as 'my brother,' but the pair are not siblings as the term is generally understood. Actually, they're closer than most flesh and blood relations could ever be, and readers of 'Our Last Resort,' Clémence Michallon's terrific thriller, will gradually understand why. Theirs is a bond forged in the crucible of a childhood and adolescence spent in a cult in upstate New York. Its young members weren't permitted to know which adults in their orbit were their biological parents (if, indeed, their biological parents were around), weren't allowed to leave the commune grounds, weren't given healthcare or medical care, and suffered myriad predations at the hands of the group's charismatic leader. Through it all, and then through the years after the two, at 18, engineered their escape, Frida, the novel's narrator, and Gabriel kept each other's secrets and had each other's backs. 'I stay seated by his bed,' Frida notes during a late-night vigil more than a decade postcommune. 'I sit, eyes open. Listening. Standing guard. It's nothing I haven't done before.' Chapters alternate between the present—an account of Frida and Gabriel's stay at a luxurious hotel in the Utah desert, a reunion after an almost nine-year schism—and the past—a chronicle of life in the cult and the subsequent struggle to adjust to the outside world.
