Zoe Ball '' s Radio 2 Book Club pick Mesmerising, haunting and utterly remarkable, this is a devastating story of fantasy and obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago. '' Exquisite '' - Will Dean, author of Dark Pines '' This is a book that will stay with you '' - Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of the Vera series '' Compelling, twisty and wonderfully suspenseful '' - Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground It is 1923 and a country is in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost in the war, millions more returned home wounded and forever changed. Beatrice Cade is an orphan, unmarried and childless. London is full of invisible women who struggle to find somewhere to work through their grief. But Bea is determined to make a new life for herself. She takes a room in a Bloomsbury ladies'' club and a job in the City. Just when her new world is taking shape, a fleeting encounter threatens to ruin everything. Kate Ryan is an ordinary wife and mother. Following the end of the war, she has managed to build an enviable life with her husband and young daughter. To anyone looking in from the outside, they seem like a normal, happy family. But when two policemen knock on her door one morning and threaten to destroy the facade Kate has created, she knows what she has to do to protect the people she loves. And suddenly, two women who never should have met are connected for ever . . .

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Emma Flint

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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

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A heady, gripping and unforgettable novel of obsession, fantasy and evil, Other Women is the story of a doomed love triangle set in interwar London.