The Second Woman
‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
Two women are found dead.
Both had a secret.
Both had a choice.
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‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
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When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to be over. What she hadn’t expected:
‘A lyrical and mesmerising mythic quest story’SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Extravagantly beautiful writing’ADELAIDE ADVERTISER
‘Unputdownable’SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
·A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference·Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire·In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be·A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage·A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker
‘Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying’ Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
‘I raced through this compelling tale about shame, single motherhood, and the lies we tell ourselves and other people’ Daily Mail
A SUNDAY TIMES STYLE RECOMMEND
‘Lyrical, moving, revealing’TRACY CHEVALIER
‘Brilliant’ NIKITA LALWANI
‘Such beautiful writing… A little bit Rear Window, a little bit Home Fire, a little bit Shameless. I loved it’ LOUISA YOUNG
‘Daring and devastating’ FIONA MOZLEY
‘A DAZZLING DEBUT’ SARAH WINMAN
‘FOR FANS OF ELENA FERRANTE…STUNNING’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY
‘VIVID AND AUTHENTIC’ WASHINGTON POST
‘NAOMI KRUPITSKY’S WORDS SING…I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN’ JOANNA GLEN
‘GRIPPING…A TENSE, NUANCED DEBUT’ PLATINUM
‘DARK AND DEVIOUS’ Stephen King
‘UTTERLY ENGROSSING’ Daily Mail
‘TWISTY AND RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC’ Ruth Ware
‘TIGHTLY PLOTTED AND UTTERLY GRIPPING’ Sarah Pinborough
‘A HAUNTING THRILLER’ Women’s Weekly
‘TOTALLY ABSORBING’ T.M. Logan
‘Stephenson’s reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved’ Sunday Times
‘His most visionary, and timely, book yet’ Chicago Review of Books
‘Absorbing speculative fiction’ Guardian
‘Stephenson’s reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved’ Sunday Times
‘His most visionary, and timely, book yet’ Chicago Review of Books
‘Absorbing speculative fiction’ Guardian
Trent Dalton, Australia’s best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?
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‘Mesmerising’ Erin Kelly
‘Sumptuous’ Observer
‘Dizzyingly wonderful’ The Times
WINNING WAS EVERYTHING…
UNTIL IT DESTROYED THEM
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‘So beautiful I almost couldn’t bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears’ STACEY HALLS
‘Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven’ MIRANDA HART
‘A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow’ DINAH JEFFERIES
‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN
‘An antiheroine able to best villainous male protagonists such as Patrick Bateman any day’ OBSERVER
‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Philby is a skilled and evocative writer’ FINANCIAL TIMES