Creep

From a blistering new voice in dark literary fiction,an unsettling portrait of lonelinessobsessionand identity which asks: if a stranger was left alone in your househow well could they truly get to know you–enough to fall in love with you? Alice and Tom are made for each other. Deeply connectedthey share a flat in Londongo to galleries togetherenjoy the same books and wine. They even share a toothbrush. It’s all picture perfect. Except Alice and Tom have never met. Alice has been cleaning Tom’s apartment every Wednesday for a year. With every smudge wiped from his coffee cupevery multivitamin counted in the jarAlice spirals deeper into infatuationimagining a love so powerful it might erase a lifetime of self-hatred and loneliness. But as Alice prepares for the moment when she and Tom will finally meet face-to-faceshe discovers that love might not be the cure she thought it was. Insteadtheir coming together sets off a chain of events that shatters everything Alice thought she knew and burns her world to the ground. Told in Alice’s compellingdeliciously acidic voiceCreep is a literary study of unreliability and unlikability. Exploring alienation and lonelinessclass and raceit’s a skilled debut with resonance in the way that we view womenmental healthand the lost in society.