?Two parts Gone Girl two parts Notes on a Scandal. . .will play with your expectations about
who's the villain and who's the victim.? ? Jennifer Weiner USA Today The acclaimed
bestselling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest boldest novel yet?an
electrifying twisty and deeply emotional family drama set on Manhattan's glittering Upper
East Side that explores the dark side of love the limits of loyalty and the high cost of
truth. You can have everything and still not have enough. Cassie Quinn may only be
twenty-three but she knows a few things. One: money can't buy happiness but it's certainly
better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist.
When Billy a junior at Princeton is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie races
home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents Lawrence and
Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal minds money can buy but Billy fits the
all-too-familiar sex-offender profile?white athletic and privileged?that makes headlines and
sways juries. Meanwhile Cassie struggles to understand why Billy's ex Diana would go this far
even if the breakup was painful. And she knows how the end of first love can destroy someone:
Her own years-long affair with a powerful charismatic man left her shattered and she's only
recently regained her footing. As reporters converge outside their Upper East Side landmark
building the Quinns gird themselves for a media-saturated trial and Cassie vows she'll do
whatever it takes to save Billy. But what if that means exposing her own darkest secrets to the
world? Lightning-paced and psychologically astute as it rockets toward an explosive ending
When We Were Bright and Beautiful is a dazzling novel that asks: who will pay the price when
the truth is revealed?
