**Deeply unnerving and utterly original - the book you will need to talk about.

A writer decides to write her next book about a female author and artist unjustly forgotten by history. But what starts as an exciting research project rapidly unravels towards breakdown and horror.**

The subject is to be Helen Ralston, an early twentieth-century author who has been systematically written out of history. The narrator sets about investigating her story as an artist, writer and muse to a much more famous man. Amazingly Ralston turns out to be still alive, and although elderly and frail a series of interviews begin. But a tale about the historic erasure of female voices starts to break down into something even more sinister, bizarre and all-consuming as the narrator uncovers 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

‘A slippery, endlessly unpackable novella’ Daily Mail**