{"product_id":"9780062390073","title":"Dream Girl : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"With this tip of the hat to Stephen King's \u003cem\u003eMisery\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDream Girl \u003c\/em\u003eis funny and suspenseful, with a dread-worthy final twist.\" \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling.\"Megan Abbott,Edgar Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eDare Me\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollowing up on her acclaimed and wildly successful \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestseller \u003cem\u003eLady in the Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, Laura Lippman returns with a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of \u003cem\u003eMisery\u003c\/em\u003e involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who is plagued by mysterious phone calls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the end, has anyone really led a blameless life?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInjured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the real Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, \u003cem\u003eDream Girl\u003c\/em\u003e.But there is no real Aubrey. Shes a figment born of a writers imagination, despite what many believe or claim to know. Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot, an ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerrys life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd why does no one believe that the call even happened?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Gerry slips between reality and a dreamlike state in which he is haunted by his own past: his faithless father, his devoted mother; the women who loved him, the women he loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now here is Aubrey, threatening to visit him, suggesting that she is owed something. Is the threat real or is it a sign of dementia? Which scenario would he prefer? Gerry has never been so alone, so confused  and so terrified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, \u003cem\u003eDream Girl\u003c\/em\u003e is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41191568048280,"sku":"9780062390073","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/products\/9780062390073.jpg?v=1635167924","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780062390073","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}