Susan has drifted through her life, perplexed and despairing, unable to take control. When she embarks on a potentially destructive extra-marital affair, it becomes clear that she must consider not only the abuses of the past but also the confusions ...
A frigid English waitress uses her looks to make extra money by having sex with strangers. One day she meets a very fat man with connections to her drowned mother--she was orphaned as a girl--and a love affair blooms....
On a cold night in autumn, an unspeakable crime shatters the quiet calm in a small seaside village. Tess wills her best friend, Lennie, to be injured or even trapped somewhere, but on some level she can already feel her absence. When she hears that L...
A freezing room in a student house, a sagging mattress on the floor, and two people, one nineteen, the other twenty, kissing passionately. All night. It is to this scene that, twenty years later, Rosy, the narrator of Julie Myerson's astonishing new ...
While researching her next book, Julie Myerson finds herself in a graveyard, looking for traces of a young woman who died nearly two centuries before. As a child in Regency England, Mary Yelloly painted an exquisite album of watercolors that uniquely...
Internationally bestselling author Julie Myerson’s beautifully written, yet deeply chilling, novel of psychological suspense explores the tragedies -- past and present -- haunting a picturesque country cottage. Mary Coles and her husband, Graham...
"Raw-nerved and plangent." -- The New Yorker"Entrancing." -- ELLE, A Best Book of 2024 “Glitteringly painful.” -- Rachel CuskThis is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young ...