Her: A fabulously creepy thriller

Review Lane ratchets up the apprehension with a maestro's skill we first saw in her debut, Alys Always.. Read it: everyone else will be. -- Sophia Martell ― THE OBSERVER a terrific, subtle thriller with delicious echoes of Patricia Highsmith and F Scott Fitzgerald ― THE INDEPENDENT The exquisitely sinister psychological thriller that is going to take us all by storm this summer, Harriet Lane's Her, has a Notes on a Scandal-type relationship between an exhausted young mother and her rich sophisticated neighbour. -- Amanda Craig ― THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Harriet Lane's Alys Always was one of the most memorable fictional debuts of recent years, a seemingly simple story that discovered subtle ways to unsettle, and which found elegant, disturbing insights into familiar English obsessions with class and status. Lane's new book, Her, due in June, promises to be this year's unmissable summer novel. Among Lane's antecedents is the pin-sharp prose of Patricia Highsmith -- Tim Adams ― THE OBSERVER Deliciously nasty, Her belongs to an emerging "women beware women" sub-genre indebted to Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal. Yet it is distinctive in its domesticity and its missing formulaic elements: a violence-free psychological thriller in which the victim doesn't even know there is a threat -- John Dugdale ― THE SUNDAY TIMES tautly written psychological thriller... there is forensic social observation here. Her London is recognisably real. Both Emma and Nina feel like women you might pass on a leafy Islington street. She has a sharp eye for telling detail... Then the endgame, when it comes, is shattering. ― THE INDEPENDENT Icicle-sharp... This is psychological bait-and-switchery to put on the shelf alongside Patricia Highsmith and Georges Simenon -- Jan Stuart ― NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Lane's writing shines a spotlight on life's domestic flotsam. Lego under the fridge, damp laundry, crumbs in the toy box: these details of middle-class parenthood are picked out in Hitchcockian detail, gathering weight, promising imminent horror. Lane's first book, Alys, Always, was one of the most talked-about thrillers of 2012, a psychological drama exploring deceit and manipulation. Her is another study of spiteful female friendship, unwinding slowly and subtly over a year... Lane's writing is always careful and elegant, loaded with significance and often beautiful -- Charlotte Runcie ― THE DAILY TELEGRAPH a new generation of female suspense novelists - writers like Megan Abbott, Tana French, Harriet Lane and Gillian Flynn... are redefining contemporary crime fiction with character driven-narratives that defy genre conventions. ― NEW YORK TIMES As seductive as it is chilling, Her is quality literary fiction meets psychological thriller, the devil of which is in the detail -- Lucy Scholes ― THE OBSERVER Brilliant. -- Dennis Drabelle ― WASHINGTON POST The end.. is perfectly executed, leaving you at the most excruciating moment possible - when a horrible thing is about to happen and there is nothing you, or any of the characters, can do to stop it ― OPRAH.COM a terrific, subtle thriller ― i Chilling, suspenseful and shrewd about friendship's mix of love and envy, Her captivates right up to its shocking denouement ― PEOPLE MAGAZINE Another taut, tense psychological thriller from the author of the acclaimed 2012 debut novel Alys, Always... A compelling revenge drama that will make you think twice about getting too chummy with the neighbours. -- Sebastian Shakespeare ― TATLER Her is another psychological thriller, every bit as compulsive as the first one... The menace here is the sort that lurks right at the edge of consciousness - something unsettling that you can't quite put your finger on, that builds and builds until the last chapter by which time I was holding my breath. Don't miss. -- Alice O'Keeffe ― THE BOOKSELLER 'Book of the Month' A fabulously creepy thriller from the author of Alys, Always. Nina recognises Emma on the street from 20 yea