Lucky Night
A Novel
Eliza Kennedy
- **“[A]
- crafty
- new
- locked-room
- thriller
- of
- adultery
- and
- disaster
- .
- .
- .
- a
- fresh
- take
- on
- middle-class
- marital
- malaise
- .
- .
- .
- Kennedy’s
- page-turner
- brings
- [our]
- fundamental
- human
- fears
- into
- the
- blazing
- light
- of
- a
- towering
- inferno.”—The
- Washington
- PostTwo
- people,
- one
- hotel
- room,
- and
- all
- the
- choices
- and
- complications
- that
- make
- up
- a
- life.**After
- six
- years
- of
- a
- stolen
- hour
- here,
- another
- there,
- tonight
- is
- going
- to
- be
- different
- for
- Nick
- Holloway
- and
- Jenny
- Parrish.
- They’ve
- booked
- a
- room
- in
- a
- new
- luxury
- hotel
- in
- Manhattan,
- where
- they’ll
- spend
- the
- entire
- night
- together
- for
- the
- first
- time.
- Expectations
- are
- running
- high
- for
- this
- brief
- reprieve
- from
- ordinary
- life:
- they
- both
- need
- a
- good
- bout
- of
- ravishing
- sex
- and
- witty
- conversation.But
- that’s
- not
- what
- they
- get.Because
- they’ve
- barely
- gotten
- started
- when
- a
- smoke
- alarm
- goes
- off.
- Nick
- is
- annoyed,
- but
- not
- worried
- about
- what
- must
- be
- only
- a
- minor
- glitch.
- Jenny
- is
- anxious,
- guilty—is
- karma
- coming
- for
- them
- at
- last?This
- existential
- page-turner
- seamlessly
- shifts
- between
- Nick
- and
- Jenny’s
- perspectives
- as
- the
- reality
- of
- their
- situation
- becomes
- apparent,
- and
- all
- their
- secrets,
- evasions
- and
- regrets
- come
- spilling
- out.
- Stripped
- of
- their
- defenses,
- disagreeing
- about
- everything,
- these
- two
- flawed,
- funny,
- very
- different
- people
- are
- forced
- to
- be
- honest—with
- each
- other
- and
- themselves—about
- what
- they
- want,
- all
- they
- stand
- to
- lose,
- and
- whether
- their
- affair
- is
- really
- as
- casual
- as
- it seems.
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