Voyeur: 'Unsettling, addictive, and razor-sharp'
'Addictive' Stylist
'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' EsquireSummer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael Young: 'Writer Seeks Assistant'.After an unconventional interview, Michael invites Leah to spend summer in the south of France with his family. But as she begins her work transcribing his diaries of his debauched youth in 1960s Soho, the lines of past and present, truth and deceit, begin to blur, and Leah has to question what it is that Michael really sees in her. A novel that challenges us to both question what we see, and what others see in us. 'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'Neill'Devastatingly witty, compulsively readable . . . like Sally Rooney meeting Martin Amis in Paris' Francine Toon, author of PineFrancesca Reece grew up in Wales, and studied French with English at King's College London before moving to Paris for most of her twenties. She was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for her short story 'So Long Sarajevo/They Miss You So Badly', and has had work published in the London Magazine and Elle. She now divides her time between Paris and Wales. This is her debut novel.
Author: Francesca Reece
Format: Paperback, 384 pages, 152mm x 232mm, 480 g
Published: 2021, Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
'Addictive' Stylist
'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' EsquireSummer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael Young: 'Writer Seeks Assistant'.After an unconventional interview, Michael invites Leah to spend summer in the south of France with his family. But as she begins her work transcribing his diaries of his debauched youth in 1960s Soho, the lines of past and present, truth and deceit, begin to blur, and Leah has to question what it is that Michael really sees in her. A novel that challenges us to both question what we see, and what others see in us. 'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'Neill'Devastatingly witty, compulsively readable . . . like Sally Rooney meeting Martin Amis in Paris' Francine Toon, author of PineFrancesca Reece grew up in Wales, and studied French with English at King's College London before moving to Paris for most of her twenties. She was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for her short story 'So Long Sarajevo/They Miss You So Badly', and has had work published in the London Magazine and Elle. She now divides her time between Paris and Wales. This is her debut novel.