Cherry

£22.00

1999. Gifty is a woman adrift in the wake of her wife’s death. She’s living in stasis, unable to bring herself to enter the bedroom where Helen died after a long illness. Her therapist tells her to confront her grief, but instead she wanders the streets looking for someone from her past. Fallen nineties pop star Isobel has done everything she can to reinvent herself. Gone is the girlish make-up and provocative manner. When she lands a job working for a middle-class family, she decides to embody the perfect nanny. Ally has always prided herself on running a successful business and being a good parent to her two children. But when her husband announces that he is leaving them to work in Indonesia for six months, and hires Isobel without consulting her, she is left angry and struggling with her chronic illness. The women soon become tangled in a dangerous web of obsession and infatuation. Someone is going to die, the question is: who?

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'A feverish spiral of grief, desire, and betrayal, laced with unease and menace. Cherry smoulders to the very last page. A lethal and seductive thriller' Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb

1999.
After the death of her partner, Gifty is haunted by her mistakes. Her only distraction is Cherry, a missing nineties pop star who everyone else has forgotten. Gifty has nothing left to lose and will hunt Cherry down if it's the last thing she does.

Ally has sacrificed so much to get the life she always dreamed of. She has the beautiful house, the loving family and a successful career. When it all begins to crumble around her, she will do anything to stop it falling apart.

Determined to leave her difficult past behind, Isobel reinvents herself and sinks into a quiet suburban life. When someone begins to unravel the truth about her, she discovers how far she is willing to go in order to keep her secrets safe.

Three women become tangled in a horrifying web of infatuation and murder in this dark and compulsive thriller from the author of Speak of the Devil.

'A deliciously dark and menacing tale of female obsession that will stay with you long after the final page' Emma Lowther, author of Fellow Creatures

'Scintillating . . . a blood-soaked riot' Publishers Weekly starred review

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Weight 0.64 kg
Dimensions 24.2 × 15.6 × 3.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

336

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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