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Other People's Fun: A wickedly funny literary thriller for the Instagram age

Harriet Lane

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage

The new novel from Harriet Lane, author of Waterstones Book Club pick, HER and ALYS, ALWAYS

'I look. I can't stop looking. That's the deal, isn't it? We all know that's how it works. If someone wants to be seen - and oh, how they want to be seen - then someone has to watch.'

Ruth is alone, unnoticed and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter is leaving home and her job is leading nowhere.

But luckily Sookie is back in her life - vivid, self-assured Sookie, who never spared the time for Ruth when they were teenagers, but who now seems to want to be friends. What could possibly go wrong?

As Ruth is caught up in Sookie's life, she sees that everything is not as simple and Instagrammable as Sookie would have you believe. But what has that got to do with Ruth, and what can she do about it?

Unputdownable, funny, spiky and subtle, Other People's Fun is a novel about modern life and the lies we tell our neighbours, friends, families and selves through the hall of mirrors that is social media. Filled with Harriet Lane's trademark creeping unease and forensic observation, this marks the long-awaited return of the mistress of literary suspense.

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Praise for Other People's Fun: A wickedly funny literary thriller for the Instagram age

  • The OBSERVER picked out HER as one of the literary highlights of 2014: 'Harriet Lane's ALYS, ALWAYS was one of the most memorable fictional debuts of recent years . . . Lane's new book, HER, due in June, promises to be this year's unmissable summer novel. - Observer on HER

  • I am tremendously impressed by HER, which is the best-written novel about a toxic friendship since Zoe Heller's NOTES ON A SCANDAL. Its portrait of the evils of envy, boredom and the seduction of wealth is compelling. Above all, I admired the way Lane has taken the new genre of novels addressing the frustrations of motherhood as experienced by professional women, and married them to the psychological thriller

  • Tautly written psychological thriller . . . there is forensic social observation here. Her London is recognisably real. Both Emma and Nina feel like women you might pass on a leafy Islington street. She has a sharp eye for telling detail . . . Then the endgame, when it comes, is shattering - Independent on HER

  • As seductive as it is chilling, HER is quality literary fiction meets psychological thriller, the devil of which is in the detail - Observer on HER

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Harriet Lane

Harriet Lane has worked as an editor and staff writer at Tatler and the Observer. She has also written for the Guardian, Vogue and the New York Times. She is the author of two other novels, Alys, Always and Her. She lives in North London.

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