1999Gifty 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.The women soon become tangled in a dangerous web of obsession and infatuation. Someone is going to die, the question is: who?
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Rose Wilding
EAN: 9781399805148
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 336
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HEIGHT: 234 mm
PUBLISHED BY: John Murray Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-11-05
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GENRE: FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General
WIDTH: 153 mm
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Book Themes:
Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Psychological thriller
Rose Wilding is a crime writer from Newcastle upon Tyne. She studied Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. When not murdering fictional people, she can usually be found drinking coffee, reading feminist sci-fi, or posting more pictures than anyone needs of her two chihuahuas on Instagram.