The First HouseFrom the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar comes a gripping psychodrama of unravelling and rebirth for readers of Katie Kitamura, Deborah Levy, Gwendoline Riley and Elena Ferrante I married my husband to live in a fairy tale. I imagined us like planets orbiting the sun or gods enacting their myths. Marriage was a solution and I wanted to be dissolved. A womans husband walks into their bedroom one evening and tells her that he wants a

Inspired by the true events of her family history

an enigmatic and ruthless MI6 handler

teenage goth Sasha

those tensions threaten to erupt

At this critical moment

you need never feel them again

and her will to survive has been tested before

she spent years struggling to find her place in an unfamiliar world

ingeniously plotted and extremely addictive

her wardrobe of clothes vast

How do you know which is which

As sincere as it is funny (and it’s very funny)’ Ramona Ausubel