Description
DATE OF RELEASE: 5 NOV 2026
'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. 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. It's not long before the women become tangled in a dangerous web of infatutation and murder in this dark and compulsive thriller from the author of Speak of the Devil.
Hardback | Publication: 5 Nov 2026, John Murray
ISBN: 9781399805131
Extent: 336 pages
