A Guardian Best Thriller Novel of the Year Zoe Ball's Radio 2 Book Club pick
Mesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint's Other Women is a devastating story of obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago.
'This is a book that will stay with you' - Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera series
London, 1923. Like so many single women after the Great War, Beatrice Cade, a thirty-seven-year-old typist, is holding tight to her small scrap of independence and trying to build a life for herself.
When charismatic visiting salesman Tom Ryan directs his attention at her, Bea falls hard for him. But Ryan is married with a child. And his wife, Kate, has worked to create a seemingly happy domestic life. When Bea is found dead and Tom Ryan is in the frame for her murder, it looks like Kate will do anything to protect her family . . .
'Compelling, twisty and wonderfully suspenseful' - Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground
'The tension grows throughout the book until it's almost unbearable. This is a book that will stay with you.' -- Ann Cleeves
'Exquisite and my book of the year. Utterly brilliant.' -- Will Dean, author of Dark Pines
'Other Women is compelling and twisty, and wonderfully suspenseful, and yet still full of empathy for the female characters.' -- Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground
Author
About Emma Flint
Emma Flint grew up in Newcastle and graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA in English Language and Literature. She later completed a novel-writing course at the Faber Academy. Since childhood, she has read true-crime stories, developing an encyclopaedic knowledge of real-life murder cases. She lives in London.
