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An obsessive power struggle between an editor and her millennial intern turns dangerous in this debut psychological thriller—for readers of Luckiest Girl Alive and You.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “Hypnotic . . . an addictive thriller.”—People

Trusting you was my first mistake. To Katherine, twenty-four-year-old Lily Lunt is a typical “snowflake.” It seems like the privileged, politically correct millennial will do whatever she can to make it big as a writer, including leveraging her family’s connections. To Lily, Katherine Ross, a career woman in her early forties, is a holdover from another era: clueless, old-fashioned, and perfectly happy to build her success on the backs of her unpaid interns.

When Lily is hired as the new intern at the magazine where Katherine is editor in chief, her arrival threatens the very foundation of the self-serving little world that Katherine has built. She finds herself obsessively drawn to Lily, who seems to be a cruel reminder of the beauty and potential she once had—things Lily uses against Katherine as she slowly begins to undermine her, sabotaging her work and turning the magazine’s new publisher against her. Is Katherine being paranoid? Or is Lily seeking to systematically destroy her life? As Katherine tries to fight back, a toxic generational divide turns explosive and long-buried secrets are exposed—with deadly consequences for both. . . .

Gripping and provocative, Precious You delivers an unsettling, provocative take on the contemporary workplace, turning the professional roles women play on their heads in a razor-sharp, revenge-driven thriller for our age.

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“Breathtaking. A brilliant, butt-kicking romp through the Gen X/Millennial clash and the horrors of cutthroat corporate life. I couldn't put it down.”—Alex Marwood, Edgar Award–winning author of The Wicked Girls

“What a wild ride. I’m obsessed with it! I felt so seen, so many times. This book, while so twisted and dark, will resonate with many, many women.”—Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of Last Girl Lied To

“An intergenerational clash between two women, played out to a shocking finale. Nail-biting.”—Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange

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“An incredibly addictive thriller that examines women in the workplace, ageism, and the clash of generations. It’s creepy and unnerving, with observations that are often dead-on.”—Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife

“A deliciously dark, addictive, and twisted page-turner.”—Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie

“Twisted, dark, and shocking . . . Absolutely terrific.”—Jo Spain, internationally bestselling author of The Confession

“Dark, disturbing, compulsive . . . I was genuinely terrified reading this.”—Adele Parks, internationally bestselling author of I Invited Her In

“I gulped this down in a single afternoon. . . . Audacious, dark, and smart, with one of the most shocking scenes I’ve read in a while.”—Phoebe Locke, author of The July Girls

“Disturbing, zeitgeisty, and twisted, Precious You will make you second-guess everything and change the way you look at your colleagues forever.”—Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House and The Girl Next Door

“What a debut! Twisty, explosive, and hugely compelling, with hints of Gone Girl . . . Excellent.”—Will Dean, author of Dark Pines and Red Snow

“A brilliantly twisted tale . . . LOVED it.”—Lisa Hall, author of Have You Seen Her

“If you like dark and twisted thrillers with venom in their veins, add this to your wish list!”—Anita Frank, author of The Lost Ones

“A slick, fast-paced, compelling novel that asks genuine questions. I loved it and was hooked from beginning to end.”—Kate Hamer, internationally bestselling author of The Girl in the Red Coat

“A delicious generational struggle.”—New York Post “Best Books of the Week”

“A hypnotic dance of obsession, gaslighting, and revenge that doesn’t let up until its final unnerving reveal.”—People “Best New Books”

“Absolutely haunting . . . An exceptional debut due to its strong female characters and thrilling conflicts, while touching on important subjects such as feminism and workplace dynamics . . . I don’t believe I will forget these characters, nor their story, anytime soon.”—Marta Paraschiv, The Nerd Daily

“Epic . . . Takhar uses the competition between these two women to encourage more solidarity between women, but we can embrace this message and also still vicariously enjoy the characters’ increasingly high-takes maneuvers against each other.”—CrimeReads “12 Novels You Should Read This March”

“Guaranteed to start the mother of all office fights between Generation X and millennials, Monks Takhar’s enjoyable poisonous debut updates All About Eve for our image-obsessed age.”—The Independent “What to Read in 2020”

“This twisty tale of office rivalry sits at the point where women’s commercial fiction meets psychological thriller. . . . Unmissable.”—The Bookseller “One to Watch”

About the Author

Helen Monks Takhar has been working as a journalist, copywriter, and magazine editor since 1999, after graduating from Cambridge University. She began her career in financial trade newspapers before writing for national newspapers including The Times and The Telegraph. Originally from Southport, Merseyside, she lives in London with her husband and two young children. Precious You is her first novel.

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Katherine

Six weeks earlier

I’ll never understand why they weren’t worried, those young things I saw every day at the bus stop, stretching free of their crammed houseshares and parental buy-to-lets in my neighborhood, at least a mile from the nearest place they would actively choose to live. Why didn’t they care we hadn’t seen a bus for twenty minutes? I made a mental note to ask Iain why no one under thirty seemed arsed about being late for work anymore, then texted my deputy, Asif. I was hoping he’d have words of reassurance, something I could use to soothe my latest work-related crisis. That Monday was the first day of a brave new world at the magazine I edited: new owners, a new publisher, a shot at a new start. I knew it was critical I made a good impression, but the world was already screwing this for me by making all the buses disappear.

I messaged Asif:

No bus. Confess late now or busk it?

And got back a not particularly helpful:

Nice weekend? New publisher already here. Not sure. Good luck. xxx

I can see myself that morning, gazing in the direction of my flat, the edges of its dried-out window boxes just visible from where I stood. I wore the oversized high-collared shirt I’d bought the day before, an ankle-length pencil skirt split to the thigh and the black biker I always wore to work. I wanted to show up looking just-pressed, but edgy and not desperate to fit into the new corporate regime I was facing, even though, of course, I was.

Mondays were already hard for me, even before that day. It wasn’t just that after twenty years I seemed to be getting worse at my job, not better, nor that the youth, hope, and unbounded energy of my interns shoved the frustrated promise of my own formative years right back in my face with greater force every day. No, it was the awfulness, the horrifying dread, of the interns asking me, “What did you do this weekend?”

Compared to when I was at the height of my potential in my twenties, I felt invisible most of the time. But on Monday mornings I felt suddenly watched. I tried, as I so often did when I was surrounded by millennials, to minimize the damage to my pride. While they recounted their energetic tales of running around London, meeting other bright young things from north, south, east, and western corners, as I had once done, I sat tight. I had done next to nothing with no one but Iain, and this could be exposed at any second. I’d sometimes manage to arrange phone interviews for 9 a.m. on Mondays, so I could block out their weekend lives and avoid their social and creative endeavors showing up my dead existence. If anyone got to ask me The Monday Morning Question, I’d recently taken to out-and-out lying, telling the interns, “We caught up with some old friends.”

That Monday, my anxiety was soaring when I caught the glow of a taxi’s light far up the road. I watched it furtively at first, until I realized I was the only one inching toward the edge of the pavement to hail it. Of course, none of the bus stop lot had the money for a black cab. No money, but plenty of time. Their lives were rich with activities and all the time they had to do them: arts, crafts, queuing for artisan toast, curating photographic records of their fizzy lives on social media, and generally being creatively incontinent. I felt the hum of self-belief and productivity whenever I was around younger adults and it left me feeling singed.

I double-checked behind me for any would-be competitors for my cab. I saw you.

You were something quite different.

You had their air of creative confidence, the one I could only assume comes from parents who cheerlead your every trifling achievement, but you seemed to carry a hunger about you too; some neediness in your eyes. Out of nowhere, I got the sense you were a young person with whom I might possibly have some common ground.

Because unlike the others, you seemed like you were bothered by being late for work. Less like them, more like me. Such an odd sense of time and age I felt you emit: undeniably as young as them, but somehow seeming older and more desperate, like me, all at once. And do you remember, you wore that tiny leather skirt? I have one just like it and I used to wear it to work too. Your skin was as pale as mine, but fully taut and shimmering, except for a dirty stripe of oil on the right side of your forehead. I couldn’t take my eyes off you. You were like looking into a mirror, or more like a window into a different time in my life, not long past, but just out of reach. I wanted to know more about you, to see if you really could be anything like me. When the taxi began to pull over, I began to wonder if I should invite you to share it.

I glanced back at you again. A finger on your left hand fiddled with the string tag on the yellow laptop case you held against the front of your thighs. You switched your weight from hip to hip and occasionally flicked the nails of your right thumb and index finger under your chin. I took the door handle and turned around to take you in one last time, before the ebb and flow of a London day separated our paths. A thought needled its way to the front of my mind: your face would return to me throughout the day and I’d have to exorcize you by telling Iain over dinner about The Girl I Saw at the Bus Stop Who Reminded Me of The Old Me.

But you were watching me.

As you looked over, you bit your bottom lip, painted hot orange like the sunrise in summertime, and flicked your nails against your skin again before moving your black eyes off me to the nonexistent bus on the horizon.

I could let you into my cab, but I wondered what we would possibly talk about. Or maybe you’d just sink into your phone, like people your age do, and I wouldn’t get to talk to you at all. And how would you pay your way? People like you never have cash on them, so would I give you my bank details so you could transfer your share of the fare? Was that wise? Was that cool? Wasn’t there an app for that, one I’d be embarrassed to say I haven’t downloaded or even heard of yet? Or would you ask to meet me somewhere at lunchtime to give me my twenty quid? Would we then end up having a burger? Find ourselves talking for ages?

Go on, girl, you show ’em what us old ravers are made of, I could hear Iain say.

No.

No, I should leave it.

I didn’t need to overcomplicate what was already shaping up to be another day I’d want to forget. I opened the taxi door and readied myself to leave you on the pavement, but suddenly you were there, right behind me.

You made me jump.

“Hi there, you must be heading south? Mind if I get in?” When you spoke to me, your mouth split to reveal the most fantastic teeth.

“Yes. I mean, I’m heading to Borough, but—”

“Perfect. Me too. Wait a sec, sorry, I’ve just realized, I literally don’t have any cash.”

Behind you I saw that the bearded and big-haired gaggle were agog that you’d thought of hitching a ride and they hadn’t. If I refused you, I feared a group of them would initiate some kind of collective action, gathering their grubby coins together in a bid to get in.

“It’s fine, just get in.” One of you had to be better than three or four.

“Is that all right? You’re absolutely sure?”

You gained and double-checked my consent. It was a technique you would use again and again on me when I didn’t understand what I was agreeing to. One of your many gifts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House (March 10, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984855964
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984855961
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.34 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches

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Helen Monks Takhar worked as a journalist, copywriter and magazine editor having graduated from Cambridge in 1997. She began her career writing for financial trade newspapers in 1999 before contributing to UK national newspapers including The Times and The Observer. Born in Southport, Merseyside in 1976, she lives in North London with her husband and two daughters. Precious You is her first novel.

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Fran

Veteran vs. Newbie

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2020

"I wanted to show up [at work] looking just-pressed, but edgy and not desperate to fit into the new corporate regime I was facing...in my heart, I knew I hadn't been 'fixed'. The beige cloud was lying in wait to blow in again." Katherine was editor-in-chief at Leadership Magazine. After a ten month medical leave, she was returning to work. New publisher Gemma Lunt, determined to update the magazine, was attempting "a reboot" to address the downturn in readership. Katherine, a 20 year career journalist, often felt that "...young people...use my magazine as a mere departure lounge that allows them to soar somewhere brighter and better, my existing only to on-board the next batch of interns who would leapfrog my life." To a millennial, "...[Katherine comes] from a tradition of journalism that has some really excellent traits...a certain resilience...but certain elements [are] from maybe the atmosphere of an old-school newsroom."

A late bus. A chance meeting at the bus stop. Katherine encounters Lily Lunt. Surprise, surprise! Lily is publisher Gemma Lunt's niece and Katherine's new intern. "I perceived Lily like a flash of hot pink...threatening to take over my world...". And so began a cat-and-mouse game. A toxic, twisted work and leisure relationship. Katherine represented a tried and true work ethic. Lily, a millennial "snowflake" was a mover and shaker. Times were a'changing. "...comments were now activated and often spilled over into ...the Twittersphere." Seemingly, Lily had it all: youth, beauty and privilege. Katherine no longer thought she would experience "a clear blue ocean of money and creative success..." It seemed that Lily's star was rising while Katherine's was setting. Why would Lily be pursuing an agenda to undermine and destroy Katherine? Not so fast Lily, Katherine is a fighter. By the way Lily, who is Ruth?

"Precious You" by Helen Monks Takhar describes a power struggle between a veteran editor and her "snowflake" intern. What could possibly be the underlying reason for Lily's stream of vitriol and her elaborate plan to stage Katherine's demise? The tension, starting as a slow burn, picks up steam and barrels to a shocking, unexpected conclusion. An unputdownable psychological thriller I highly recommend.

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2020

Precious You starts out with a bang as a Gen X’er tries to run over the Millennial upstart who has ruined her life.

Katherine is a Gen X editor at a management magazine when a young female named Lily asks for a ride in her cab to work. By an ostensible coincidence, Lily is the new unpaid intern at the magazine. It appears (to us—not Katherine) that Lily is making Katherine late for her first meeting with new publisher, Gemma. However, even depressed and unobservant Katherine realizes she is in trouble when Lily says that Gemma is her aunt.

Lily has a great facade. However, behind the mask, her relationship with Gemma is more like a gun in the war between Gemma and Lily’s mum. To get her own flat near Katherine’s, she has a weekly “erotic arrangement” with the concierge. Lily has a long-term goal and an entire book to achieve it.

Using alternating first-person chapters, Precious You does a great job showing life from two generations’ perspective. As a baby boomer myself, it is interesting to see Gen X’ers feel vulnerable to a younger generation. Personally, I like the Millennial perspective better (work-life balance, experiences over things, etc.) However, Lily also seems like a sociopath in Millennial skin. Still, she probably doesn’t deserve to be run over.

Overall, Precious You is an insightful look into generational differences while also being an entertaining thriller. It is well worth reading. 4 stars!

Thanks to Random House and NetGalley for granting my wish for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

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Meh, didn't really hold my interest.

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2020

I received this copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

Precious You by Helen Monks Takhar is a generational power struggle between Katherine, a 41 year old editor and Lily, her 24 year old intern and the niece of the new owner of the magazine.

The chapters alternate between the perspective of the two. Katherine’s chapters are told in second person. Lily’s are told in first person.

It didnt really hold my interest tho. I felt it was a little too toxic stereotypical characters. Some might enjoy it tho.

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Cat

My wording doesn’t do justice to the author’s mesmerizing writing style...

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2020

This is a very timely story based on a 41-year old editor of a slowly dying magazine and her 24-year old intern, who sure seems to have an ulterior motive.
Katherine has dedicated 20 years to Leadership Magazine; on top of her game, intelligent, desirable and very successful strong-willed woman. Lily is the big boss’s niece; a manipulative yet sincere and truly likable young lady.
As their slow dance of deception begins, it seems realistic that they have so much in common and can be friends. Neither one has a solid friend base to rely on. Plus Lily is almost a mini-me of Katherine in so many ways.
My wording doesn’t do justice to the author’s mesmerizing weaving and idiosyncrasies of each strongly flawed female and how they perceive the same encounters in such different angles of light. Helen Monks Takhar has a very engaging, lyrical, and flowing writing style that simply captivates the reader. There’s so much more going on here than a somewhat tense work environment between an unbending determined strong woman and her eager nubile young intern. The way she slowly evolves Katherine into a weak and heartbroken shell of a woman, and Lily evolves from the catty little hussy to a somewhat caring and sincere young woman is so beautifully laced together.
I avoid spoilers, so I will carefully say the ending of the dance between these two will leave you distraught and questioning the sad loss of so much that could have been fruitful.
(I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. Thank you to Random House Publishing Group and NetGalley for making it available.)

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Michelle Rawlins

Dark, terrifying but utterly brilliant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2020

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Utterly gripping. I read this in three sittings - the last one keeping me hooked until the early hours. Dark, terrifying and with twists that left me scared to turn the page. Incredibly cleverly written, transporting you to another place, which you desperately race through to understand all the complexities. The author has explored the depths the human mind can go to. Think Killing Eve. I will not forget this book any time soon.

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Ronnie

Compelling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2020

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I found this quite an intriguing book, that goes beyond the standard “younger woman after my job/man” trope.

It centres around two women, Lily, the young millennial intern and Katherine, the gen X-er and editor at the magazine where Lily is interning. To add complications, for Katherine anyway, Lily’s aunt Gemma has bought the mag and is now Katherine’s boss. Katherine thinks Lily is after her job and is trying to undermine her, but Lily has much more radical plans than that.

I was never quite sure what the magazine they worked at actually was, “Leadership”, some sort of corporate mag? The new owners think Katherine’s writing is a bit stale and dull… for a mag that seemed to be aimed at corporate managerial types.

The book often dwells on the age divide between millennials and, well, everyone older. There were also some comments by the author at the end about the generation divide and how the generations of women should work together, etc. However, I think the message got a bit lost in this story. To me, the generational divide was an irrelevance; the real story was two deeply unpleasant, manipulative women battling it out and seeing who was prepared to go the furthest.

It was difficult to decide who was the “villain” in all this, as both characters were essentially unlikeable.
Lily seemed, initially, the most unhinged. The story is told from both women’s perspectives and she quickly revealed she had an agenda. It wasn’t the first time either, being friends with Lily was dangerous territory.

I didn’t know what to make of Katherine at first; she was only 41 but seemed to feel and think she was in her dotage. She and her partner, Iain, also never seemed to have moved on from their hedonistic clubbing, druggy days. As revealed later in the book, Katherine was diabolically clever, so I couldn’t quite square this with the desperate “cool elder” image.

Some of her behaviour seemed to go way beyond trying to keep up with the younger generation and felt a bit unrealistic. For example, the house party chapter; led to believe it would be in a country house, with lots of vibrant young hipsters, it is actually set in a grotty semi in a small town and hosted by what seemed to be geeky po-faced teenagers, why would Katherine even bother? I also thought Lily’s rendition of the tale was a bit over the top: the teens quake in fear as an old person comes up the path “don’t let them in”!! Like a zombie invasion was lurching up the drive, not two 40 somethings.

I also felt it was obvious what was going to happen at the awards ceremony, given that Lily was “helping”. You could see this coming a mile off and I can’t understand why someone as sharp as Katherine was oblivious.

All the loose ends are tied up very nicely in the last chapters of the novel and the true extend of the characters’ malice, spite and calculation are revealed. I found it a riveting read with a truly repulsive (and I must say very novel), murder method revealed near the end.

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Zoe Leighton

Awful people doing awful things

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2021

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I didn’t want to be with any of the characters for too long, they were all sickening, but I did stay with the book as wanted to read the denouement. The downfall seemed inextricably inevitable, the twist at the end a tad implausible, but it’s fiction and it did keep me reading. Lily was the character that didn’t work for me, with access to money I think she would have flown away. Three stars because it’s worth a read for the rollercoaster of improbability.

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Jay Blanchard

Brilliantly Creepy and Witty Masterclass of 'Dark Cringe' Domestic Noir

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2020

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This was excellent. It took a simple but intriguing premise and launched it into an energetically creepy place. Deliciously grotesque characters and a plot that takes you into what I can only describe as 'dark cringe' situations reminded me of Tamar Cohen's 'The Mistress's Revenge' and Zoe Heller's 'Notes on a Scandal' - two favourite novels of mine-- and the millennial vs Gen X aspect added a refreshing and blackly comic dimension.

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MicaWood

A good read. Recommended.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2020

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I really enjoyed this book. It was twisty and dark with parts that kept me hooked.
I felt certain sections could have been condensed or removed all together and the book would have still made sense. Some parts were slower to read with not much tension going on. There were also proof-reading errors with missing words in sentences that stood out whilst I was reading.
I was happy to have guessed the main plot twist in this book but, even so, Precious You had me guessing at extra hidden details until the last pages that were a surprise.

A nice, twisty thriller read - would recommend!

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