The Make-Believe by Hannah Murray (The Dial Press, June 23)
Actress Hannah Murray became a celebrity as a teenager when she joined the cast of Skins as Cassie, one of the British television series’s most beloved characters. Off-camera, Murray’s struggles with mental health sent her looking for solace, and at the age of 27, she joined a wellness organization that promised spiritual rewards. But the organization turned out to be much more controlling than Murray anticipated. As she fell deeper in love with the organization’s charismatic leader, she found it more impossible to escape his manipulation. In writing The Make-Believe, Hannah Murray tells People that she felt “empowered to be telling my own story and reclaiming my own narrative. I’m excited to share this story with readers, to let them inside a chapter of my life that was sometimes magical, sometimes chaotic, sometimes painful and dark.”