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Abigail Willard first spots her from the back of a New York cab: the spitting image of Abby herself at age 22 – right down to the silver platforms and raspberry coat she wore as a young artist. But the real Abby is now 46, married with a corporate job and two kids. Was this merely a hallucinatory side-effect of working-mom stress? A message to remind her of passions and dreams tossed aside? Or something more dangerous?
Abby continues to spot her double around her old New York haunts and soon, despite her better instincts, she finds herself tailing her lookalike. She is dogged by a nagging suspicion that there is a deeper mystery to figure out, one rooted far in her past. All the while, Abby’s life starts to slip from her control: her marriage hits major turbulence and her teenage son drifts into a radical movement that portends a dark coming era. When her elusive double presents her with a dangerous proposition, Abby must decide how much she values the life she’s built and how deeply she knows herself.
Abigail Willard first spots her from the back of a New York cab: the spitting image of Abby herself at age 22 – right down to the silver platforms and raspberry coat she wore as a young artist. But the real Abby is now 46, married with a corporate job and two kids. Was this merely a hallucinatory side-effect of working-mom stress? A message to remind her of passions and dreams tossed aside? Or something more dangerous?
Abby continues to spot her double around her old New York haunts and soon, despite her better instincts, she finds herself tailing her lookalike. She is dogged by a nagging suspicion that there is a deeper mystery to figure out, one rooted far in her past. All the while, Abby’s life starts to slip from her control: her marriage hits major turbulence and her teenage son drifts into a radical movement that portends a dark coming era. When her elusive double presents her with a dangerous proposition, Abby must decide how much she values the life she’s built and how deeply she knows herself.
From Edgar Award nominee Debra Jo Immergut, a taut, twisting work of suspense about a woman haunted by her younger self.
Debra Jo Immergut is the author of The Captives, a novel forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in June 2018, and Private Property, a short-story collection from Random House. She is a MacDowell and Michener fellow and has an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. A magazine editor and journalist, she has also taught writing in libraries, military bases, and prisons. Her literary work has been published in American Short Fiction, Narrative, and the Russian-language journal Foreign Literature. Her journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, New York magazine, and many other places. She lives in western Massachusetts. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Alice has worked steadily as an actor in Australian and international film, television and theatre. Some of Alice’s feature film credits include Where the Wild Things are, Sanctum, Mao’s Last Dancer and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Her theatre credits include leading roles in Sydney Theatre Company’s The Taming of the Shrew and Griffin Theatre Company’s world premiere of The Peach Season.
'Ingenious and riveting, this is a book that should not be missed
by anyone interested in the way love affects us, the way the past
haunts us, and the way we trick ourselves into believing in
impossible futures.'
*Criminal Element*
'So accomplished, so glorious – a complete original from page
one.'
*Janet Finch, author of White Oleander*
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