Creep
A Love Story
by Emma van Straaten
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Pub Date Feb 25 2025 | Archive Date Apr 22 2025
Harper Perennial and Paperbacks | Harper Perennial
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Description
"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.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780063411012 |
PRICE | $17.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 256 |
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