Mrs March by Virginia Feito

£14.99

Bookseller review by Valerie:

“This clever, arresting debut novel starts memorably as our main character Mrs March happily sets off to a bakery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to order macarons as an elegant dessert for her husband’s book launch party. He is a wildly successful novelist whose new book is the talk of the town, indeed it’s the first thing the bakery assistant mentions to her. But that comment unleashes a torrent of self doubt, anxiety and anger in Mrs March that fuels the rest of the story. With the affluent backdrop of her opulent life in New York Mrs March’s progress is observed with a very dark humour. I found it impeccably written, original and very readable.”

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Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia

George March’s latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder than Mrs. March, his dutiful wife, who revels in his accolades and relishes the lifestyle and status his success brings.

A creature of routine and decorum, Mrs. March lives an exquisitely controlled existence on the Upper East Side. Every morning begins the same way, with a visit to her favourite patisserie to buy a loaf of
olive bread, but her latest trip proves to be her last when she suffers an indignity from which she may never recover: an assumption by the shopkeeper that the protagonist in George March’s new book –
a pathetic sex worker, more a figure of derision than desire – is based on Mrs. March.

One casual remark robs Mrs. March not only of her beloved olive bread but of the belief that she knew everything about her husband – and herself – sending her on an increasingly paranoid journey, one
that starts within the pages of a book but may very well uncover both a killer and the long-buried secrets of Mrs. March’s past.

A razor-sharp exploration of the fragility of identity and the smothering weight of expectations, Mrs. March heralds the arrival of a wicked and wonderful new voice.

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