“A wonderful literary trompe l'ceil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling” – Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her

“This is an addictive read. Clever, compulsive and deft. De Vigan kept me guessing to the point where I even began to question the reality of the pages in my hand. Fantastic” – Ann Morgan, author of Beside Myself

“A story that keeps the reader guessing until – and beyond – the very end ... A story of memory and friendship, a cracking page-turner and a journey into what the essence of fiction, and indeed autobiography, might be. Excellent” – Nicholas Searle, author of The Good Liar, shortlisted for the 2016 CWA New Blood Dagger

“An incredible true story of obsessive female friendship that grips until the very last mark on the very last page” – Denise Mina, bestselling author of the Alex Morrow series

“In this captivating story of imprisonment … Delphine de Vigan intelligently questions the place of the writer in our society of imitation” – Le Figaro

“An excellent novel: malign, Machiavellian, manipulative … This new book is a struggle to put down” – Parisien

“A dizzying, psychoanalytical story within a story … Fascinating” – Le Point

“Delphine de Vigan teases her readers' desire for truth, and plays with the grey area between reality and fiction ... Highly convincing” – Le Monde

“Enthralling, not only brilliant in its construction – chilling, worthy of the best thrillers – but also it has a rare finesse in its constant questioning of the act of writing” – Page

“Delphine de Vigan is a sensation” – Observer