The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe: A Delicious Novel of a Friendship Gone Sour, Jealousy and the Ultimate Revenge . . .

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Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a career journalist, are old friends, best friends, and yet do they really even like each other at all As children they were inseparable. Throughout the years, life's obstacles have tainted their relationship, but they still love each other. Don't they Now fate has left them sharing a North London home, with one caring for the other. They rely on each other, they couldn't possibly live without one another, but are either of them being honest about the emotional scars etched on their minds as a consequence of the other's actions Only one thing is certain: the next seventy-two hours are going to be rougher than ever.

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It's dark and twisted, comic and toxic. I loved it! -- Jenny Colgan, author of The Summer Skies
A twisty tale of toxic friendships and even some sneaky sedatives added to Heinz tomato soup. -- Julie Mae Cohen, author of Bad Men
The characterisation is spot-on and the deeper we get into this beautifully drawn portrait of their intensely complicated, often horrific 'friendship', the more shocking and compelling the narrative is . . . Fabulous. * Daily Mail *
I couldnt get enough of this beautifully written, dark, twisted and often funny novel about a toxic friendship. Its quirky and different in the best possible way and I loved it! -- Charlotte Levin, author of If I Can't Have You
A witty exploration of humanity . . . * People's Friend *

Author Bio

Claire was born and brought up in a village just outside Cardiff and graduated from King's College London with an MA in nineteenth-century English and American Literature. She worked as a journalist on women's general-interest magazines for many years, writing for Essentials, Woman & Home and Candis, where she was known for being able to turn her hand to pretty much anything - from interviewing boxing champs and war correspondents to learning how to pole dance and the correct way to iron a shirt. Other career highlights include taste-testing eight varieties of mince pie during an August heatwave, begging Victoria Beckham to donate a dress to a charity raffle and visiting six second-hand car dealerships in one afternoon, in a bid to expose sexism in the motoring industry. She turned to fiction after the birth of her twin son and daughter. Three of her short stories have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and one was runner-up in the Fiction Desk Newcomer of the Year Award (2016). She is currently working on her second novel, Tell Tale, about a troubled ten-year-old girl who manipulates rising community tensions for her own amusement. Claire lives in London with her husband and children. When she's not writing, she's a passionate parkrunner, container-gardener and baker of calorific goods. After a break of several years, she's finally enjoying mince pies again.