A struggling writer hits on the subject for her next book: a biography of an overlooked female artist. But her literary detective work soon leads to bizarre, unnerving twists...
The book will be about Helen Ralston, a visionary early twentieth-century artist and writer who seems to have been completely written out of history. Amazingly Ralston turns out to be still alive and a series of conversations between the two women begins. But a story about the historic erasure of an extraordinary female voice starts to break down into something even more sinister when the narrator begins to uncover unnerving parallels between Ralston's story and her own.
'An astonishing and deeply strange novella... Inspired, delicate and quite sinister' Mariana Enriquez
'Short, uncanny provocative' Lauren Elkin, New York Times
'Exhilarating! What an absolutely beguiling book with an ending that left me breathless and giddy' Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
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Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and moved to Britain in the 1980s. Her first novel, Windhaven, co-written with George R.R. Martin, was followed by a dozen fantasy, science fiction, and horror adult and YA novels, and hundreds of award-winning short stories collected in several volumes, including A Nest of Nightmares and The Dead Hours of the Night. She is the author of The Encyclopedia of Feminism (1986) and currently writes a monthly science fiction review column for the Guardian. She lives with her husband and their daughter in Scotland.