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Other Women

the devastating historical murder mystery inspired by a true story, and Radio 2 Book Club pick

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Other Women

Yazan: Emma Flint
Seslendiren: Chloe Massey, Sara Poyzer
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Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.

Mesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint's Other Women is a devastating story of fantasy, obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago.

'A pitch-perfect historical mystery' – The Guardian
'Bloody brilliant' – Dinah Jefferies, author of The Missing Sister
'Compelling, twisty, and wonderfully suspenseful' – Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

It is 1923 and a country is in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost in the war, millions more returned home wounded and forever changed.

Beatrice Cade is an orphan, unmarried and childless. After her brother's death, she decides to make a new life for herself. She takes a room in a Bloomsbury ladies’ club and a job in the City. But just when her new world is starting to take shape, a fleeting encounter threatens to ruin everything.

Kate Ryan is an ordinary wife and mother. Since the end of the war, she has managed to build an enviable life with her husband and young daughter. From the outside, they seem like a normal, happy family. But when two policemen knock on Kate's door and jeopardize the facade Kate has created, she knows what she has to do to protect the people she loves. And suddenly, two women who never should have met are connected for ever . . .

'Exquisite' - Will Dean, author of Dark Pines

'This is a book that will stay with you' – Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of the Vera series

'A thoroughly captivating and unsettling page-turner' – iNews

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The tension grows throughout the book until it's almost unbearable. This is a book that will stay with you. (Ann Cleeves)
This beautifully written, pitch-perfect historical mystery is based on a real case – here, a murder that took place in 1924 . . . a moving study of loneliness, desperation, shame and public prurience. (Laura Wilson)
Exquisite and my book of the year. Utterly brilliant. (Will Dean, author of Dark Pines)
Flint maintains suspense in what is a thoroughly captivating and unsettling page-turner that deserves to land her on awards lists again. (Robert Epstein)
Emma Flint reworks the details of a notorious historical murder and unspools the fate of her three entirely convincing main characters.
Based on a shocking real-life murder in the 1920s Other Women focuses on Beatrice, almost invisible until she falls in love with a colleague, and Kate, seen as a devoted wife and mother, until their lives converge. I expect to see it on all the awards shortlists.
Other Women is compelling and twisty, and wonderfully suspenseful, and yet still full of empathy for the female characters. (Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground)
Moving, gripping . . . Other Women takes another tale of a true crime and reimagines it into a novel – this time, the murder of Emily Beilby Kaye by her married lover, Herbert Patrick Mahon. (Alison Flood)
Bloody brilliant (Dinah Jeffries)
Set in the early 1920s, this clever mix of romance, thriller and courtroom drama proves love and heartbreak never ages, whatever the era.
Utterly, utterly brilliant. Other Women is compelling, thought-provoking, harrowing and incredibly urgent. (Caroline Lea)
Staggeringly brilliant, harrowing, haunting and entirely beautiful. Other Women takes a thrilling yet compassionate look at the making of a murder, at loneliness and love, at fixation and the sting of shame. A wonderful novel. (Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End)
The tension is superb and I honestly couldn't put it down.
Poignant and elegant, brutal and beautiful, Other Women, is a masterclass in modern storytelling. (Helen Cullen, author of The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually)
A glittering black diamond of a book. Beautiful and devastating literary true crime. Emma Flint takes a real murder from the 1920s and gives voice to the women involved. Bubbling anger beneath exquisite prose. (Anna Mazolla, author of The Clockwork Girl)
It is brilliant. I was swept up in a turmoil of emotion as I read. This is a book that starts as a love story and turns into something much darker indeed. (Harriet Tyce, author of The Lies You Told)
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I loved this book and I listened on audible which made the story come alive even more.

It is about an independent intelligent woman Beatrice, who we find is working in London as a secretary and bookeeper in 1929. During her work, she meets a salesman Thomas Ryan, who is married and there is a connection.

This book is Bea's journey but also with Kate, Ryans wife.

I really enjoyed the chapters written in Bea's and Kates experiences. It shows two strong women and thier relationship with the same man.

I would definately recommed this novel, and now I'm off to read Emma Flints first novel.

An Excellent read.

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Very disturbing story, made all the more unpalatable by the attitudes towards women at the time. A worthy but not an easy listen.

Based on a true story

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An interesting but not extraordinary crime from the 1920s is ignited by interesting and balanced characterisation and a careful plot delivery. The language and sensory descriptions bring the story and characters vividly to life: really, the language is a joy. This could have been played out as a ‘whodunnit’ and it would have been all the worse. The tragedy is heightened by the two female ‘opposing’ narratives which come close in plot, and then closer still in lived experience. A woman’s lot at this time is made clear from the start, and is truly shocking. The desperate women’s situations tied up in the lies of the same terrible man, were interspersed with the hopes and dreams that anyone might have; and these were held closely together to devastating effect. Never was the anachronistic ground of castigating misogyny from a revisionist perspective taken. This kept the meter of the story consistent and aligned with the legal case which inspired the writing. I enjoyed every single minute of this novel. Thank you.

Tragic, nuanced and meaningful

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It's difficult to decide whether to hug the main character or tell her to get her head straight. I was immersed in her life and although her mindset is a common one, it's difficult not to scream silently. Hard to put down once you get into it.

Deep and moving story.

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I really enjoyed this book, the detail and descriptions of the characters was great. It is a good reminder of how women were treated and thought of only 100 years ago. I will look for other books written by Emma Flint. Definitely would recommend, I could not stop listening after it started a bit slow. I waited until the end to look into the real case and there were a few other surprises.

Loved this book

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