Justine

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Justine is a painting, a doppelgänger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Set in contemporary London, Justine is a story of a man's obsession with a woman – or is it two women? For Justine has a twin sister Juliette, and as the story unfolds, the opium-dazed narrator becomes increasingly unsure as to the identity of the woman he desires.



A lush, erotic teasing mystery



Angela Carter crossed with the Scottish diffidence of Muriel Spark and Emma Tennant … a faultless performance of a first novel



Beautifully spare, very visual writing … with its own sly, soft sympathetic elegance



And enthuse we must. This is an extraordinarily accomplished book, sharp, focused, highly intelligent



So skilfully crafted, its atmosphere so ominous, its end so chilling