Look What You Made Me Do

Kate and her husband Jack, an architect, have been married thirty years and live in metropolitan North London. Kate belongs to the baby boomer generation, and to her the marriage looks idyllic, with its own private language.

Phoebe is a millennial screenwriter with a sharp tongue. Her partner, Tony, is a charming loafer. Their relationship has a private language too. Then Phoebe's steamy television series Cheating becomes the most talked-about show of the year.

Watching it, Kate spots details and intimacies from her own marriage, things she believes only she and Jack could know. She starts asking who has betrayed whom, and who has taken whose story, and for what reason.

The book is a black comedy about love, trust, resentment and entitlement, told as a suspenseful, closely observed story. It sets two women from different generations against each other in a contest that only one of them can win. The pace is brisk, and the tone mixes humour with real bite. The author is a Booker Prize nominee.