A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel. I loved its dreamy, hazy surface, and its uncomfortable undertow

CLAIRE FULLER, author of the Costa Prize winning Unsettled Ground

Atmospheric and full of foreboding

MAIL ON SUNDAY

A watch-this-space writer ... Explores power, exploitation and the cost of making art

IRISH INDEPENDENT

A hugely talented writer

SARAH WATERS

A psychologically rich and delectably dark look at the price of women's artistic ambition

PEOPLE

Shot through with satire on the culture industry's demand for autobiographical stories of women's lives, the plot resembles a cross between Zoë Heller's Notes On A Scandal and Yael van der Wouden's recent hit The Safekeep. Tense and intelligent, with an excruciating set-piece climax

DAILY MAIL