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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN´S PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE McKITTERICK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD

´Scandalous´ DAILY MAIL
´Spellbinding´ SUNDAY EXPRESS
´Sparkling´ GUARDIAN
´Fascinating´ RED
´Remarkable´ WOMAN AND HOME
´Astounding´ EMERALD STREET
´Glamorous´ IRISH TIMES
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To the outside world, they were the icons of high society - the most glamorous and influential women of their age. To Truman Capote they were his Swans: the ideal heroines, as vulnerable as they were powerful. They trusted him with their most guarded, martini-soaked secrets, each believing she was more special and loved than the next...

Until he betrayed them.

´Writers write. And one can´t be surprised if they write what they know.´
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´The new Donna Tartt´ VOGUE

´A dazzlingly assured first novel... This clever book, with the moreish astringency of a negroni, is a perfect summer cocktail.´ SUNDAY TIMES

´A whirlwind of a first novel. There is great pathos in the Swans´ woundings and in their inevitable decline. And the character of Truman himself shimmers through the novel in a wonderful blaze of eccentricity and excess. Outstanding.´ ROSE TREMAIN

´A completely fascinating novel and a marvellously skilful re-imagining of real people, times and places. Outstanding.´ WILLIAM BOYD

´Our generation´s The Secret History´ PENDORA

´Brilliantly written, deeply researched, funny, sharp and moving.´ - KATE WILLIAMS, bestselling author of Josephine

´Brilliantly captures Capote´s acid wit and his dramatic downfall.´ THE TIMES, Books of the Year

´This is a first novel of extraordinary skill, a book of which Capote would have been proud´ OBSERVER

´Greenberg-Jephcott´s debut is a devastating read that blurs the lines between vulnerability and narcissism; sex and power... will have you racing breathlessly towards the end´ THE POOL

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"A rich, sharp, sting of a book. It made me laugh and grimace and pity monsters. I´m still smiling about it" Stu Turton, bestselling author of THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE

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Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott was born and raised in Houston, Texas, before coming to call Los Angeles and London her adopted homes. She is a graduate of UEA´s Creative Writing MA course and was the winner of the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. Swan Song, her first novel, was longlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction 2019, won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award.

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