A Maxim Jakubowski selected title.
With shades of Ingmar Bergman's film Persona and the 1992 Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh movie Single White Female, this dizzying tale of female rivalry and ambiguous love from award-winning French author De Vigan is wonderfully unsettling. The main, seemingly autobiographical character, appears to be De Vigan herself, an author struggling badly with her writing who finds her life invaded by another woman whose friendship is once welcomed and then becomes increasingly involving and perilous and soon threatens not just her life but her belief in herself as a writer.
Ingenious, disturbing, creepy, this tale of transference and rivalry feels at times like a contemporary ghost story, albeit in a postmodern way but never slows down and makes for a fast, involving read. Fascinating and unputdownable. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
'A wonderful literary trompe l'oeil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling' Harriet Lane, bestselling author of HerOverwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated and unusually intuitive, she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. And as their lives become further entwined, L. begins to threaten Delphine's identity and her safety.
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'A wonderful literary trompe l'oeil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling' Harriet Lane, bestselling author of HerOverwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L.
Based on a True Story features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
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Based on a True Story was written by Delphine de Vigan and published by Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Based on a True Story has 376 pages
£8.09, reduced from £8.99. In Stock.
