The Jealous One
'Britain's Patricia Highsmith'
Published on 5. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-571-39129-5 (ISBN)
Description
A classic psychological thriller from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith' and the 'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir' (Sunday Times)
'Brilliant ... So witty and clever.' Elly Griffiths
'Fremlin packs a punch.' Ian Rankin
'Irresistible.' Val McDermid
'Splendid ... Got me hooked.' Ruth Rendell
'A master of suspense.' Janice Hallett
Lindy had a lovely voice. It rose into the summer darkness clear and true as a nightingale; or was it, rather, like a bird of prey?
Rosamund wakes up from her mid-morning nap to find, to her delight, that she is running a temperature. Surely that explains her blinding headache, and the weird, delirious dream in which she had murdered her overly seductive neighbour - the Other Woman - in a vengeful act of jealousy? A great relief, then, to find this was merely the nightmarish work of a fevered imagination. Until her husband exclaims, 'Rosamund! Have you any idea what's happened to Lindy? She's disappeared!.'
'Brilliant ... So witty and clever.' Elly Griffiths
'Fremlin packs a punch.' Ian Rankin
'Irresistible.' Val McDermid
'Splendid ... Got me hooked.' Ruth Rendell
'A master of suspense.' Janice Hallett
Lindy had a lovely voice. It rose into the summer darkness clear and true as a nightingale; or was it, rather, like a bird of prey?
Rosamund wakes up from her mid-morning nap to find, to her delight, that she is running a temperature. Surely that explains her blinding headache, and the weird, delirious dream in which she had murdered her overly seductive neighbour - the Other Woman - in a vengeful act of jealousy? A great relief, then, to find this was merely the nightmarish work of a fevered imagination. Until her husband exclaims, 'Rosamund! Have you any idea what's happened to Lindy? She's disappeared!.'
Reviews / Votes
'Fremlin packs a punch.', Ian Rankin'Do not start a Celia Fremlin novel at bedtime. You won't be able to put it down ... Irresistible tension.', Val McDermid
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-39129-5 (9780571391295)
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01/2014
Faber & Faber
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Person
CELIA FREMLIN (1914-2009) was born in Kent and spent her childhood in Hertfordshire. She then studied at the University of Oxford whilst working as a charwoman. During the Second World War, she served as an air-raid warden before becoming involved with the Mass Observation Project, collaborating on a study of women workers, War Factory. In 1942 she married Elia Goller, moved to Hampstead and had three children. In 1968, their youngest daughter, aged nineteen, took her own life; a month later, her husband did the same. In the wake of these tragedies, Fremlin briefly relocated to Geneva. In 1985, she married Leslie Minchin, with whom she lived until his death in 1999. Over four decades, Fremlin wrote sixteen celebrated novels - including the classic seaside mystery Uncle Paul and Christmas noir The Long Shadow - as well as one book of poetry and three story collections. Her debut, The Hours Before Dawn, won the Edgar Award in 1960.