Other Women

Zoe Ball '' s Radio 2 Book Club pick Mesmerising, haunting and utterly remarkable, this is a devastating story of fantasy and obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago. '' 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 the war, 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 . . .

Product details

• Authors: Emma Flint, Flint Emma
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.03.2024
• EAN: 9781509826568
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-2656-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Crime, Historical fiction, c 1920 to c 1929, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), True crime: serial killers and murderers, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction