Other Women (Paperback) - Emma Flint

A heady, gripping and unforgettable novel of obsession, fantasy and evil, Other Women is the story of a doomed love triangle set in interwar London.

A Guardian Best Thriller Novel of 2023
Zoe Ball's Radio 2 Book Club pick

Mesmerising, haunting and utterly remarkable, this is a devastating story of obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago.

'Exquisite' - Will Dean, author of Dark Pines
'This is a book that will stay with you' - Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of the Vera series
'Compelling, twisty and wonderfully suspenseful' - Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

London, 1923. Like so many single women after the Great War, Beatrice Cade, a thirty-seven-year-old typist, is holding tight to her small scrap of independence and trying to build a life for herself.

When charismatic visiting salesman Tom Ryan directs his attention at her, Bea falls hard for him. But Ryan is married with a child. And his wife, Kate, has worked to create a seemingly happy domestic life. When Bea is found dead and Tom Ryan is in the frame for her murder, it looks like Kate will do anything to protect her family . . .

About the Author

Emma Flint was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne. She graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA in English Language and Literature, and later completed a novel-writing course at the Faber Academy. She lives and works in London.

Since childhood, she has been drawn to true-crime stories, developing an encyclopaedic knowledge of real-life murder cases from the early twentieth century. Her first novel, Little Deaths, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, for the Desmond Elliott Prize, for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, and for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize.

Other Women is her second novel.