Praise for HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE

‘On the surface the book is a highly competent, creepy little chiller, but beneath, like a silent, bolted and half-dark room, there’s a much bigger, equally disconcerting story about the nature of feminine experience. It’s an accomplished debut from a writer who shows insight and emotional power’
HILARY MANTEL, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall

‘An intensifying mood of menace pervades this mesmerising debut. Is the fragile Marta slipping into paranoia? Or glimpsing agonising insights into a devastating nightmare about herself and her “perfect” marriage . . . ?’
DAVID HEWSON, author of The Killing

‘A compelling, twisty tale of deception and distrust. Beautifully written, and very clever indeed’
ELIZABETH HAYNES, author of Into the Darkest Corner

‘In her first novel, Emma Chapman has managed to walk a delicate, terrifying line. How To Be a Good Wife is at once claustrophobic, startling and hauntingly beautiful. It’s that amazing, awful kind of book that will stay with you long after you wish it would let you go’
LIZA KLAUSSMANN, author of Tigers in Red Weather

‘Taut, elegant and pitch-perfect. As soon as you’ve read it you’ll want to talk about it’
EVIE WYLD, author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

‘Compelling and complex, this brave novel offers no safety nets . . . Not just a gripping read but an essential one. It will provoke questions long after the cover is closed’
RUTH DUGDALL, author of The Woman Before Me, winner of the CWA debut dagger award

‘A tense, unnerving debut, told with precision and control. As unsettling as any ghost story’
SIMON LELIC, author of Rupture and The Child Who

‘An impressive debut novel. Here’s hoping there’ll be more from Emma Chapman’
M. J. HYLAND, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Carry Me Down and This is How

‘Compelling, edgy and dark – I read How To Be a Good Wife in one sitting’
JANE RUSBRIDGE, author of Rook and The Devil’s Music

‘Mesmerising. A beautiful and disturbing novel. I loved it’
SUSANNA JONES, author of When Nights Were Cold

‘A compelling debut: tightly plotted, tensely written, and subtle in its explorations of motive. Emma Chapman is very accomplished in her present, and a bright hope for the future’
ANDREW MOTION