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‘Unique, bold and unsettling’ Aiwanose Odafen ‘Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson’ Amy Gentry ––– My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife. One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her – about her education, about the man she will marry, about her freedom. None of them are kept. A few months later, self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents’ kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is his wife, there to give them the grandson they’ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife. In the Texas heat, patience runs on short supply and the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly strained, increasingly violent. Desperation makes people do strange things… Unpredictable and unsettling, HOUSE WOMAN is a delicious thriller you will never be able to forget. ––– ‘Haunting . . . a neo-gothic thriller, complete with a magnificently horrifying villain’ Daily Mail ‘A modern successor to Gaslight: disorienting and disturbing’ Kirkus Review ‘Unflinching, unforgettable’ Layne Fargo ‘Gripping’ Glamour ‘Impressive and moving’ Irish Times

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Fear never diesThese stories from eighteen masters of the craft will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.An exploited child worker in the silver mines of Bolivia finds an ally but at what cost? A young woman''s workplace affair has terrifying repercussions when her lover''s wife dies. A sailor''s wife takes her communion with Nature a little too farFrom a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother''s advice a touch too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent's corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors.Featuring stories by: Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Oko

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My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife. One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her – about her education, about the man she will marry, about her freedom. None of them are kept. A few months later, self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents’ kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is his wife, there to give them the grandson they’ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife. In the Texas heat, patience runs on short supply and the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly strained, increasingly violent. Desperation makes people do strange things… Unpredictable and unsettling, HOUSE WOMAN is a delicious thriller you will never be able to forget. ‘A jaw-dropping debut of intimate horror perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson’ Amy Gentry, author of BAD HABITS ‘A modern successor to Gaslight: disorienting and disturbing’ Kirkus Review

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Fear never diesThese stories from eighteen masters of the craft will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.An exploited child worker in the silver mines of Bolivia finds an ally but at what cost? A young woman''s workplace affair has terrifying repercussions when her lover''s wife dies. A sailor''s wife takes her communion with Nature a little too farFrom a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother''s advice a touch too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent's corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors.Featuring stories by: Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Oko

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