''A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it'' Charlotte Mendelson-One of our finest living authors - propulsively entertaining- New York Times-Wonderfully strange and alive- Jon McGregorA propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons EndFabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agn- receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agn-escape ten years ago. Now, Agn-is free to tell her story.As children in a backwater town, they-d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves - until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agn-on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agn-can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of