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A hugely compulsive, dark, stylish and intense novel, simmering with Hitchcockian undertones - for readers of LULLABY, EILEEN or THE LEMON GROVE

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Have you ever wanted to steal someone else´s life?

A compulsive, dark domestic noir novel simmering with Hitchcockian undertones, for those who loved LULLABY, KILLING EVE or THE CRY.

´Unsettling and compelling´ Tammy Cohen

´Laura Sims has pulled off the high-wire act of making bitterness delicious´ Vogue

The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan left her when she couldn´t have a baby. All she has now is her dead-end teaching job, her ramshackle apartment, and Nathan´s old moggy, Cat. Who she doesn´t even like.

The Actress lives a few doors down. She´s famous and beautiful, with auburn hair, perfect skin, a lovely smile. She´s got children - a baby, even. And a husband who seems to adore her. She leaves her windows open, even at night.

There´s no harm, the Professor thinks, in looking in through the illuminated glass at that shiny, happy family, fantasizing about them, drawing ever closer to the actress herself. Or is there?

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A short, sharp breath of air . . . Built like a thriller (I tore through it in a day), its impact comes less from grand narrative twists than a queasily forensic examination of one woman´s disintegrating life and mind . . . this is a novel I had been craving: an unflinching portrayal of women looking upon each other as disturbingly as men do New Statesman

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Sims, Laura
Laura Sims is the author of four books of poetry, and LOOKER is her debut novel. She lives in Brooklyn.

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