Zelda's Cut

Description: Delicious combination of confused identities, personal dramas and moral dilemmas in a contemporary chiller from one of our most outstanding novelists. For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret. But if the public don't want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match? The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born. What began with the best of intentions snowballs into a disorienting blur of passion, gender-bending, loss of innocence, to betrayal and beyond. Isobel Latimer might feel she's on the brink of losing everything, but what would Zelda do?

Review: 'Clever, original, perceptive and preposterous! highly enjoyable' Hampstead & Highgate Gazette 'Hooks until the final twist' Woman & Home 'ZELDA'S CUT holds the attention because the cravings it describes are real' Helen Dunmore 'Gregory's extraordinarily engrossing novel examines the human capacity for self-deceit and explores the risks we should take to be our true selves! a triumph' Daily Mail

Author Biography: Philippa Gregory is an internationally renowned author of historical novels. She holds a PhD in eighteenth-century literature from the University of Edinburgh. Works that have been adapted for television include A Respectable Trade, The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool. The Other Boleyn Girl is now a major film, starring Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Eric Bana. Philippa Gregory lives in the North of England with her family.

Delicious combination of confused identities, personal dramas and moral dilemmas in a contemporary chiller from one of our most outstanding novelists. / Nationwide outdoor coverage via British Rail 4-sheets at high-traffic stations / Plus extensive 4-sheets on London Underground / Advertising in women's press / Lead title on www.fireandwater.com / Competition: Ruth Rendell