One Year of Ugly
‘A perfect staycation read’ Guardian
‘Funny, dark and brilliantly written… should be top of your TBR’ Stylist Magazine
‘Extraordinarily excellent’ Daily Mail
‘A completely addictive read that is laugh-out-loud funny’ Heat Magazine
‘A perfect staycation read’ Guardian
‘Funny, dark and brilliantly written… should be top of your TBR’ Stylist Magazine
‘Extraordinarily excellent’ Daily Mail
‘A completely addictive read that is laugh-out-loud funny’ Heat Magazine
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:
‘Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times
‘Thought-provoking, timely, and extremely funny’ Metro
‘An exciting, vividly-imagined reconstruction of an extraordinary moment in the history of the American West’ Ian McGuire, bestselling author of THE NORTH WATER and INCREDIBLE BODIES
‘A highly compelling page turner; you won’t be able to put it down’ Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON and AMERICAN RUST
‘A psychologically smart debut that swathes teen desire and friendship in mystery and mirth’ Observer
‘Like a twisted Malory Towers or maybe a cosmic version of ‘Heathers’’ Daily Mail
‘Funny, whip-smart and transcendently wise’ Jenny Offill
‘The love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French’ Chloe Benjamin
‘A lyrical and mesmerising mythic quest story’SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Extravagantly beautiful writing’ADELAIDE ADVERTISER
‘Unputdownable’SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
‘Enjoyably abrasive… a compelling read… sardonic and elegant’ Evening Standard
‘Scabrously funny… few authors can be as entertainingly problematic as Shriver’ Guardian
‘A darkly gripping and addictive read. I tore through it in a few days’ ESTHER FREUD
‘Deeply engrossing … an exquisite literary thriller’ PHILIPPA EAST
‘Emotionally wrenching’ WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘Impossible to put down’ TREVOR WOOD
‘A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ PAULA HAWKINS
‘WRITTEN PRE-COVID – GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE’ IAN RANKIN
‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ A.J. FINN
‘GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!’ SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium
‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN
‘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
’Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore. A new star has arrived in the thriller firmament’ The Times, Book of the Month
‘An absolute *blinder* … so so funny and sexy. So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans’ Caroline O’Donoghue, author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature
AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘I’m so impressed I want to tell everyone… Police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvellous lightness of style and wit’ PHILIP PULLMAN
‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief’ SARAH WATERS
‘Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening’ GUARDIAN
‘Atmospheric, sexy, creepy…totally addictive’ KATE DAVIES, author of In At The Deep End
‘A gloriously over-the-top queer romp’ I PAPER
‘AN AMAZING WRITER’ Margot Robbie*‘HILARIOUS’ Stylist‘DAZZLING’ Marian Keyes‘WITTY’ Guardian‘HEARTBREAKING’ Dolly Alderton‘INCREDIBLE’ Candice Carty-Williams