Voyeur

'Addictive' Stylist'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' EsquireSummer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael Young: 'Writer Seeks Assistant'.After an unconventional interview, Michael invites Leah to spend summer in the south of France with his family. But as she begins her work transcribing his diaries of his debauched youth in 1960s Soho, the lines of past and present, truth and deceit, begin to blur, and Leah has to question what it is that Michael really sees in her.A novel that challenges us to both question what we see, and what others see in us. 'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'Neill'Devastatingly witty, compulsively readable . . . like Sally Rooney meeting Martin Amis in Paris' Francine Toon, author of Pine

Tense and sultry... addictive... With a complicated love triangle, glamorous settings, a cast of enigmatic characters and a mystery that will keep you guessing right until the end, it's a genuinely thrilling summer holiday read, For fans of Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times, this is a sultry antidote to our Groundhog Year, A sultry novel that shimmers with suspense and a strong sense of period and time, A smart and sticky exploration of memory, class, ambition and desire, If your hopes of heading to Provence this summer are looking in jeopardy, Francesca Reece's sizzling summer debut is a one way ticket to the South of France . . . As the title suggests, it's a story about the ways men and women watch one another, and the things we project onto people when we're only seeing what we want to see

Francesca Reece grew up in Wales, and studied French with English at King's College London before moving to Paris for most of her twenties. She was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for her short story 'So Long Sarajevo/They Miss You So Badly', and has had work published in the London Magazine and Elle. She now divides her time between Paris and Wales. This is her debut novel.