'Atmospheric, thrilling, sexy and so clever' - Laura Pearson, bestselling author of The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up
What happens when truth and lies collide? The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings is an intoxicating mystery across past and present from Joanna Nadin.
1988, Cornwall. At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working in his father's pub. So when twin sisters Daisy and Bea, and their small circle of friends, arrive for a holiday in his village, Jason is determined to become part of their glamorous, intoxicating world.
2018, London. When famous actress Daisy Hemmings decides it's time to write her autobiography, she chooses James Tate to help her. James is a ghost-writer and his job is to tell other people's stories for them. He's good at it, and why wouldn't he be? He's spent years pretending to be someone else . . .
'Totally absorbing and evocative' - Kate Riordan, bestselling author of Summer Fever
'Fizzes with energy and charm . . . Bewitching' - Emylia Hall, author of The Rockpool Murder
'A captivating novel that keeps you turning its pages' - Emily Koch, author of What July Knew
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The characters in this book are works of fiction. But, then, isn't everyone . . . ?
1988, Pencalenick, Cornwall.
At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working at his father's pub and when fate, in the form of twins Daisy and Bea and their small circle of friends, offers him a glimpse of another, more glamorous, world, he's determined to become a part of it. It's Daisy who Jason is most entranced by, though. Everyone is: she's the sun around which others orbit.
The trouble with the sun, of course, is that those who get too close risk getting burned - and by the end of the summer, one of the group will be dead.
2018, Camberwell, London.
When famous actress Daisy Hemmings decides it's time to publish her autobiography, she chooses James Tate to write it. James is a ghost writer: it's his job to step into other people's shoes; to tell their stories for them. And he's good at it. Very good. After all, he's had years of practice at pretending to be someone he's not.
But what happens when past and present - and truth and lies - collide?
Joanna Nadin's The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings is an unflinching, unforgettable novel about the people we are, the people we'd like to be, and the price we pay for getting what we want . . .