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Creep: A Love Story | Emma van Straaten
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"Creep is everything I want from a novelits obsessive, its rapturous, it spirals into the most masochistic corners of the mind. A perfectly twisted debut."Anna Dorn, author of Perfume & Pain "An unforgettable portrait of monstrous obsessionweird, brilliant, terrifying, and utterly engrossing."Sierra Greer, author of Annie Bot 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 youenough 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. Its all picture perfect. Except Alice and Tom have never met. Alice has been cleaning Toms 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 Alices 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.
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Creep: A Love Story | Emma van Straaten
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📚 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕄𝕒𝕚𝕝 📬

The synopsis of 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐩 by 𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 is . . . well, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘺! Also intriguing & horrifying.

Thanks to Bibliolifestyle & Harper Perennial, I will be reading this unique & “perfectly twisted debut“ soon.

It was published February 25, 2025, & is available now.

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