Other Women
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See moreInspired by a true crime that took place almost a hundred years ago, Other Women is the gripping, unforgettable and haunting story of a doomed love triangle set in 1920s London.
A heady, gripping and unforgettable novel of obsession, fantasy and evil, Other Women is the story of a doomed love triangle set in interwar London.
Soon to be featured on Zoe Ball's Radio 2 Book Club.
Exquisite - Will Dean, author of Dark Pines
This is a book that will stay with you - Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of the Vera series
Compelling, twisty and wonderfully suspenseful - Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground
It is 1923 and a country is in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost in Europe, millions more returned home wounded and forever changed.
Beatrice Cade is an orphan, unmarried and childless. London is full of invisible women who struggle to find somewhere to work through their grief. But Bea is determined to make a new life for herself. She takes a room in a Bloomsbury ladies' club and a job in the City. Just when her new world is taking shape, a fleeting encounter threatens to ruin everything.
Kate Ryan is an ordinary wife and mother. Following the end of the war, she has managed to build an enviable life with her husband and young daughter. To anyone looking in from the outside, they seem like a normal, happy family. But when two policemen knock on her door one morning and threaten to destroy the facade Kate has created, she knows what she has to do to protect the people she loves. And suddenly, two women who never should have met are connected for ever...
Mesmerising, haunting and utterly remarkable, Other Women is a devastating story of fantasy, obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago.
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Other Women has been praised for its exquisite writing and compelling, twisty narrative. Ann Cleeves hails it as a book that will stay with you, while Will Dean calls it "utterly brilliant" and his book of the year. Reviews highlight the novel as a beautifully written historical mystery that captures loneliness and desperation with suspense that grows until almost unbearable. Critics also commend Emma Flint's skillful reimagining of a notorious historical murder and her creation of convincing characters.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781509826551
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 February 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 233.0mm
Weight: 450g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Emma Flint was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne. She graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA in English Language and Literature, and later completed a novel-writing course at the Faber Academy. She lives and works in London. Since childhood, she has been drawn to true-crime stories, developing an encyclopaedic knowledge of real-life murder cases from the early twentieth century. Her first novel, Little Deaths, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, for the Desmond Elliott Prize, for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, and for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. Other Women is her second novel.
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