&A wonderful literary trompe l&oeil a book about friendship writing & the boundary between reality & fantasy Dark smart strange compelling& Harriet Lane bestselling author of Her Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel exhausted & suffering from a crippling inability to write Delphine meets L L embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated & unusually intuitive she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer&s life However as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways & as their lives become further entwined L begins to threaten Delphine&s identity & her safety