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  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552777544
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99

The Mistress's Revenge




By the popular author of WHEN SHE WAS BAD and THE BROKEN, her sharp, funny, dark debut novel set in contemporary London, written as a journal addressed by a former mistress to the married lover who dumped her.

You think you are rid of me.
You think you have drawn a line under the whole affair.
You are so, so wrong.

For five years, Sally and Clive have been lost in a passionate affair. Now he has dumped her, to devote himself to his wife and family, and Sally is left in freefall.

It starts with a casual stroll past his house, and popping into the brasserie where his son works. Then Sally befriends Clive's wife and daughter on Facebook. But that's alright isn't it? I mean they are perfectly normal things to do. Aren't they?

Not since Fatal Attraction has the fallout from an illicit affair been exposed in such a sharp, darkly funny and disturbing way.. After all, who doesn't know a normal, perfectly sane woman who has gone a little crazy when her heart was broken?

  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552777544
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Tamar Cohen

Tammy Cohen is a freelance journalist. A late starter to fiction (and to other things besides) she has now written four novels:The Mistress's Revenge, The War of the Wives. Someone Else's Wedding and The Broken. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Kingston University and lives in North London with her partner and three (nearly) grown children, plus one very badly behaved dog. Follow her on Twitter @MsTamarCohen

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Praise for The Mistress's Revenge

This book is Fatal Attraction with a twist and will grip you from beginning to end

Prima

Gasp in recognition at this cracking tale, narrated by a woman scorned... Sister, we've all been there...

Grazia

Will keep you guessing about its characters fates until the very end

Candis Magazine

Dark, often funny but sometimes unnerving

Woman & Home

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned indeed! Honest... gripping... well-written

Essentials Magazine

Gripping debut

Glamour

Sad, shocking, but darkly funny, this diary-style tale of a crazed, broken-hearted woman is riveting

Closer

This is a brilliantly chilling read. All about obsession and delusion and the madness that love can induce. It had me up until 3am, gasping to the end

Jo Whiley

I just finished the most fantastic gripping book, the Mistress's Revenge by Tamar Cohen. I had to keep going to bed early to read it, it's amazing!

Lisa Jewell

If you thought Fatal Attraction was the last word on the fury of a woman scorned, think again...acutely observed, wickedly funny and deftly plotted, with a satisfyingly smart twist at the end.

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