Synopsis
A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year
'An astonishing debut . . . I was utterly hooked . . . by this twisty, sexy, shocking treat of a novel ' – The Sunday Times
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her husband from his former students – a situation that becomes...
Details
09 February 2023256 pages
9781529080476Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Female ageing and desire, sexual agency in the era of #MeToo, the relationship between morality and art, even a nod to Stephen King's Misery: it's all here in this sexy stealthy slippery debut, one of the year's hottest reads.The Daily Mail
This deliciously dark American debut . . . A boisterous campus novel with an outrageously acerbic narrator, it delivers uncomfortable truthsThe Guardian
This impressive debut . . . A twisty and thought-provoking taleThe Sunday Times/The Times
Haunted by the spirit of Nabokov, this sly satire challenges today’s “insistence on morality in art”The Daily Telegraph
