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When you wake up without your memories, who can you really trust?
Long-listed for the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction in 2021, The Glass Woman explores the tensions that rise when you can no longer trust those you love, bringing the reader along as we unravel the mystery together with the narrator.
Seamlessly blending crime and speculative fiction in a heart-pounding exploration of relationships, loss, trust, AI, and science, this Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Before I Go to Sleep is bound to stay in readers’ minds long after they’ve turned over the last page…
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mental Health, Grief, Death
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Pioneering scientist Iris Henderson chose to be her own first test-subject for an experimental therapy, placing a piece of technology into her brain. At least, this is what everyone tells her. Trouble is, Iris is now without her memories so she doesn't know what the therapy is or why she would ever decide to volunteer for it.
Everyone warns her to leave it alone, but Iris doesn't know who to trust. As she scratches beneath the surface of her seemingly happy marriage and successful career, a catastrophic chain of events is set in motion. Secrets will be revealed that have the capacity to destroy her whole life, but Iris can't stop digging.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Alice McIlroy was born in London. She graduated in English and has a post-graduate in Law. She completed Faber Academy’s novel-writing programme. She has taught English in state schools in London and Milan, and volunteers with a post-natal depression charity. Her writing has been longlisted for the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction and Grindstone International Novel Prize. The Glass Woman is her debut novel.
PRAISE FOR THE GLASS WOMAN:
“Alice McIlroy’s The Glass Woman is the boundary-breaking psychological thriller I’ve been waiting for. This is a dark and ferociously intelligent book with a labyrinthine love story at its heart. A book where things go missing; things nobody can afford to lose. Children. Memory. Identity. Set against a backdrop of marriage in the twenty-first century, our deepening relationship with technology, and the role of women in science, The Glass Woman asks some haunting questions: does technology have the power to alter who and how we love? Do we ever truly know ourselves? Can there be life after the death of a child? Read it.” - Sarah May, author of Becky and Faber Academy tutor, on The Glass Woman:
“An exceptional novel and a joy to read.” - Dr. Mike Seymour, AI Researcher at the University of Sydney, on The Glass Woman:
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