Rock Paper Scissors
Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts – paper, cotton, pottery, tin – and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after. Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.
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For their tenth anniversary, a screenwriter and his wife retreat to a converted chapel in the Scottish Highlands to fix their marriage. He has face blindness and can't picture her, and she has been writing him letters for years.
Yes. Rock Paper Scissors is a 2021 psychological thriller by Alice Feeney. The novel is famous for its twist ending. It was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese's Book Club pick.
No. Rock Paper Scissors is a standalone, separate from Alice Feeney's other novels Sometimes I Lie, His & Hers, and Beautiful Ugly.
Rock Paper Scissors was written by Alice Feeney, published in 2021 by Flatiron Books.
Rock Paper Scissors is 344 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Rock Paper Scissors takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Rock Paper Scissors is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.