'O'Donoghue's writing is deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' Grazia

Jane is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. Then, at an office party, she takes on another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss, takes off, she discovers that sex and power go hand-in-hand, and that it's hard to keep your head when you're someone else's dirty little secret. And soon her friendships, her sanity and her life are put into jeopardy... .

'Manages to capture exactly how it feels to be a twentysomething woman in London while also containing a gleefully dark and gothic streak. It's an absolute gamechanger' The Pool

'Properly, properly funny' Alexandra Heminsley, BBC Radio 2 (Sara Cox Show)

'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn or even Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones Diary, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty ... there is a brilliant sharpness underneath what may seem like a glossy surface' Irish Independent

Caroline O'Donoghue is an Irish author, journalist and host of the award-nominated podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has contributed to Grazia, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Buzzfeed, Vice and The Times. On publication of her first novel, Promising Young Women, in 2018 she was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards' Newcomer of the Year and the Kate O'Brien Award. Her next adult novel, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, will be published in 2020 followed by All Our Hidden Gifts, a novel for young adults published by Walker, in 2021. She was born in Cork but currently lives in London with her partner and a terrier with chronic eye problems.