"Truly fascinating and compulsive--transgressive with an ending that gave me whiplash. Emma's
writing is gorgeous--rich and delicious and evocative . . . I couldn't tear my eyes away. An
accomplished and visceral debut."--Kirsty Capes author of Daughters From a blistering new
voice in dark literary fiction an unsettling portrait of loneliness obsession and identity
which asks: if a stranger was left alone in your house how well could they truly get to know
you--enough to fall in love with you? Alice and Tom are made for each other. Deeply connected
they share a flat in London go to galleries together enjoy the same books and wine. They even
share a toothbrush. It's all picture perfect. Except Alice and Tom have never met. Alice has
been cleaning Tom's apartment every Wednesday for a year. With every smudge wiped from his
coffee cup every multivitamin counted in the jar Alice spirals deeper into infatuation
imagining a love so powerful it might erase a lifetime of self-hatred and loneliness. But as
Alice prepares for the moment when she and Tom will finally meet face-to-face she discovers
that love might not be the cure she thought it was. Instead the line between fantasy and
reality becomes ever more blurred shattering everything Alice thought she knew. Told in
Alice's compelling deliciously acidic voice Creep is a literary study of unreliability and
unlikability. Exploring alienation class and race it's a skilled debut with resonance in the
way that we view women mental health and the lost in society.
