Plaything

'I just loved it – it truly wedged itself into my brain. Absolutely vile and brilliant. <i>Plaything</i> is an unhinged melody, and it will serenade fans of the darkest narratives.' <b>ALICE SLATER, author of <i>Death of a Bookseller</i></b><br><br>'A gloriously tense tale of obsession' <b><i>Financial Times</i><br><br>Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. But when she falls for the beautiful, enigmatic Caden, her need to get under his skin, to truly know him becomes overpowering.</b><br><br>Anna’s new life in Cambridge is full of promise – she’s the top student in her PhD cohort, she has great friends and she has met an exhaustingly attractive man – but something is a little off. Perhaps it’s the routine violence of her lab work with animals, or maybe it’s something to do with her boyfriend’s icy reserve but it seems there is a kind of menace hiding beneath the Cambridge dream.<br><br>When Anna and Caden's lives become tightly entangled, her obsession with Caden’s seemingly ever-present ex-girlfriend reaches a dangerous pitch… Just how far will she go to satiate her curiosity?<br><br>-------------------<br><br><b>FROM THE REVIEWS FOR BEA SETTON’S<i> BERLIN</i></b><br><br><b>'Terrific . . . [an] unsettling and compelling read'</b> <i>Observer</i><br><br><b>'I was completely absorbed' </b>FRANCESCA REECE, author of <i>Voyeur</i><br><br><b>'Compelling, raw and thrillingly strange' </b>MONA AWAD, author of <i>Bunny</i><br><br><b>'Cinematically vivid, and refreshingly honest' </b>LISA HALLIDAY, author of <i>Asymmetry</i>