Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and sets about getting to know the neighbours, especially the man next door. She ignores her neighbour's inconvenient girlfriend, but it's not quite as easy for Annie to dismiss her own past. As Annie's murky history of violence, secrets and sexual mishaps catches up with her, she cannot see that she has done anything wrong. She's just doing what any good neighbour would do, after all...
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781444762976
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 200 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
An intense and intriguing novel that never quite lets the reader get comfortable. It understands about the fuzzy boundary between the normal and the strange, and weaves them together in a gripping, ever-darkening narrative - Jenny Diski
who wouldn't kill for a comic gift like Jenn Ashworth's? - Guardian
a hugely readable debut novel...about the inability to know others and ourselves - Independent
evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell - The Times
extremely intense and powerfully intriguing - Waterstone's
What a fantastic novel, I'm sure this one will be up there in my Top Ten of the year.
Annie is such an intriguing character - and one of the most unreliable narrators I've ever come across. At times she...
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I didn't like this book but I didn't dislike it either. It just didn't leave me anything , it was not boring but it was not gripping. A sad story with a sad character
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