Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month for March 2023
1955: In an apartment on the Lower East Side,school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains,mixing cocktails for two,they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth...
1975: Twenty years later in the same apartment,Ava Winters is keeping her own secret. Her mother has become erratic,haunted by something Ava doesn't understand - until one sweltering July morning,she disappears.
Soon after her mother's departure,Ava receives a parcel. Addressed simply to'Apartment 3B',it contains a photo of a woman with the word'LIAR'scrawled across it. Ava does not know what it means or who sent it. But if she can find out then perhaps she'll discover the answers she is seeking - and meet the woman at the heart of it all...
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9781405949422Number of pages: 416Weight: 290 gDimensions: 197 x 127 x 23 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Loved this... I was gripped from the first page and eked out the last chapters as I didn't want to leave the smoky clubs of 1950's Manhattan. A stellar line-up of brave,complicated and bright women... prepare to lose yourself in a tale of love,loss and deceit'- Sara Cox
'I so enjoyed That Green Eyed Girl. The atmosphere of city heat and dust and stifling apartments was so vividly evoked. And I was equally invested in both narrative strands... I was hooked from the beginning'- Clare Chambers,author of Small Pleasures
'I loved this. Dovie and Ava are both such compelling characters and the evocation of time and place so strong - I was irresistibly drawn into their stories. Sad,rage-inducing and uplifting - a very emotional read'- Harriet Tyce,author of Blood Orange
'That Green Eyed Girl takes hold of you and draws you along. I loved the little connective details between the timelines and the unravelling of the gentle mystery of it all. Hits a perfect bittersweet note - I predict big things'- Kate Sawyer,author of The Stranding
'The mystery at the heart of this novel had me hooked from the start. I spent a weekend sitting in 1950s bars,listening to jazz with Gillian and Dovie,then skipping ahead twenty years to walk the same streets with Ava,remembering the awkwardness of being a teenager. Heartbreaking but with a satisfying ending,I will remember this book for a long time'- Louise Hare,author of This Lovely City
'Made me cry,took me to smoke-filled jazz bars,and made me want to dance. A brilliantly written,evocative and moving novel'- Anna Mazzola,author of The Clockwork Girl
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