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Other People's Clothes
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Other People's Clothes
Intoxicating, compulsive and blackly funny, Other People's Clothes is the thrilling debut novel from Berlin-based American artist Calla Henkel.
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Full of delicious layers . . . I felt drunk reading it. – Emma Jane Unsworth
Intoxicating, compulsive, and blackly funny, Other People's Clothes is the thrilling debut novel from Berlin-based American artist Calla Henkel.
2009. Berlin.
Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems.
Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before in her hometown in Florida.
Hailey is rich, obsessed with the exploits of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, and wants to be a Warholian legend.
Together they rent a once-magnificent apartment from eccentric crime writer Beatrice Becks. With little to fill their time, they spend their nights twisting through Berlin's club scene and their days hungover.
Soon inexplicable things start happening in the apartment, and the two friends suspect they are being watched by Beatrice. Convinced that their landlord is using their lives as inspiration for her next thriller novel, they decide to beat her at her own game. The girls start hosting wild parties in the flat and quickly gain notoriety, with everyone clamouring for an invite to 'Beatrice's.' But ultimately, they find themselves unable to control the narrative and it spirals into much darker territory . . .
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Calla Henkel's Other People's Clothes is praised as a darkly funny and unpredictable debut novel, with a gripping plot that combines crime thriller elements and biting humour. Reviewers describe it as both brutal and glamorous, with a strong sense of setting in Berlin, capturing the eccentricities and dynamics of the art world. The novel's energy and clever manipulation of expectations keep readers engaged until the last page, making it a highly entertaining and addictive read.
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ISBN: 9781529357677
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 March 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 230g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Calla Henkel is an American writer, playwright, director and artist living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Other People's Clothes, was a New York Times Book Review 'Editors' Choice'. She has staged plays at Volksbuhne Berlin and the Whitney Museum of Art, and her artistic work with Max Pitegoff has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. She currently operates a theatre in Los Angeles, called New Theater Hollywood. Scrap is her second novel.
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