In this thrilling next novel from the acclaimed author of Alys, Always, andHer,achance encounter draws two women from different worlds into an increasingly toxic friendship.

“I look. I cant stop looking. Thats the deal, isnt it? We all know thats how it works. If someone wants to be seenand oh, how they want to be seenthen someone has to watch.”

Ruth is alone, unnoticed, and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter is leaving home, and her job is leading nowhere.

But luckily Sookie is back in her lifevivid, self-assured Sookie, who never spared the time for Ruth when they were teenagers, but who now seems to want to be friends.But as Ruth is caught up in Sookies life, she sees that everything is not asInstagrammable as Sookie would have you believe. As the truth aboutSookie becomes clearer, so too does the choice Ruth will have to make.

Unputdownable, spiky, and subtle, Other Peoples Fun is a novel about modern life, from the little lies we tell our neighbors, friends, families, and ourselves tothe hall of mirrors that is social media. Filled with Harriet Lanes trademark creeping unease and forensic observation, this page-turner considers how desperately we want others to see us as we areand what happens when they finally do.