Young Women: An addictive, timely story of an intense female friendship from a powerful new voice

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Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story.

When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, her life changes. Drawn into Tamsin's world of Soho living, boozy dinners, and cocktails at impossibly expensive bars, Emily's life shifts from black and white to technicolour and the two women become inseparable.

Tamsin is the friend Emily has always longed for; beautiful, fun, intelligent and mysterious and soon Emily is neglecting her previous life - her work assisting vulnerable women, her old friend Lucy - to bask in her glow. But when a bombshell news article about a decades-old sexual assault case breaks, Emily realises that Tamsin has been hiding a secret about her own past. Something that threatens to unravel everything . . .

Young Women is a razor sharp novel that slices to the heart of our most important relationships, and asks how complicit we all are in this world built for men.

Praise for Jessica Moor:
'A fabulous new writer' - Richard Osman
'Compelling, tense and pacy read' - The Observer, 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2020
'Powerful and chilling, an important story, well told' - Guardian

Reviews

'Powerful and chilling.' - Guardian on KEEPER

'Tense, beautiful and lyrical. Everyone should read this book.' - Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, on KEEPER

'A fabulous new writer.' - Richard Osman on KEEPER

Author Bio

Jessica Moor studied English at Cambridge before completing a Creative Writing MA at Manchester University. Her debut novel Keeper was published in 2020 to rave reviews and critical acclaim. Jessica Moor was selected as one of the Observer's debut novelists of 2020, and her debut, Keeper was chosen by the Sunday Times, Independent and Cosmopolitan as one of their top debuts of the year. Keeper was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and an Edgar Award. Young Women is her second novel.