Other Women
23 February 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.
Mesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint's Other Women is a devastating story of fantasy, obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago.
'A pitch-perfect historical mystery' – The Guardian
'Bloody brilliant' – Dinah Jefferies, author of The Missing Sister
'Compelling, twisty, and wonderfully suspenseful' – Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground
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Details
23 February 2023693 minutes
9781529029239Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The tension grows throughout the book until it's almost unbearable. This is a book that will stay with you.Ann Cleeves
This beautifully written, pitch-perfect historical mystery is based on a real case – here, a murder that took place in 1924 . . . a moving study of loneliness, desperation, shame and public prurience.Laura Wilson, The Guardian
Exquisite and my book of the year. Utterly brilliant.Will Dean, author of Dark Pines
Flint maintains suspense in what is a thoroughly captivating and unsettling page-turner that deserves to land her on awards lists again.Robert Epstein, iNews
