Author:Francis Cottam

Every year, three million single women in America move into an apartment for the first time. Few of them change the locks.
Juliet Devereau can't believe her luck: after weeks of looking for a place to live, she's found a beautiful, spacious apartment overlooking Brooklyn Bridge. It almost seems to good to be true.
It is... Over the weeks, a chilling sense of being watched stalks Juliet. Strange sounds wake her in the night, the mirror in the bathroom trembles, and doors she thought shut are open. Then the silhouette of a man standing in her living room makes her realise that she's not alone in there. But what's haunting her is far more terrifying than a malevolent spirit; it's alive, strong and obsessed. Suddenly Juliet is caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse, and there's no guarantee that she'll come out alive...
An excellent exploration of family life and Trollope's pitch-perfect dialogue isperfectly delivered here by Fenella Woolgar.
—— Kati Nicholl, The Daily ExpressBitchily observant novel of small-town life
—— IndependentSparkles with wicked wit...provides some pointed digs at social one- upmanship and the genteelly disguised venality of the upper classes. But, on another level, it can be hugely enjoyed as class-war subversion
—— Sunday TimesThe pleasure of Mapp and Lucia is summed up, surely, in Alice Roosevelt's bon mot. "If you have nothing good to say about anybody, come and sit right by me."
—— Philip HensherOh the joy of seeing Lucia again! These magic books are as fresh as paint. The characters are real and therefore timeless
—— Nancy Mitford , The TimesHis glorious prose captures ephemeral glamour magically
—— IndependentHis talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings
—— Ernest HemingwayRead it again, forever
—— Boston Globe






