Dear Darling

ELLA KING is the acclaimed author of Bad Fruit. Her essays on race and motherhood have been featured in Shado, ELLE and Harper’s Bazaar and she has taught at Faber Academy, University of Arts London and Spread the Word. She has also worked as a corporate lawyer and for anti-human trafficking and domestic violence charities.@therealellaking

‘There is nothing more intriguing to me than the desires of women and how we act when we want something that isn't good for us. Ella King's Dear Darling is delicious in its thrall to that notion whilst also being a deeply moving character study of a woman in flux’ LISA TADDEO‘Tender prose that tackles the thorniest of subjects with lush writing and compassion … Comparisons to My Dark Vanessa are inevitable, but I like this one better' ERIN KELLY‘You'll go a long way before you find tension as fraught as in Dear Darling. A feminist narrative that explores the abuse of power and its consequences. What a dark, vengeful read, and what a promising new writer’ JANICE HALLETT‘Written in captivating prose, this is a book that probes complex issues in a way that is both timeless and very much of our age’ HARPER'S BAZAAR‘King takes an age-old theme and makes it truly her own. It's a thriller that shimmers with nuance at every turn – absolutely brilliant’ HEATHER DARWENT‘Ella King writes with precise, interrogating beauty, however unsettling the subject. Dear Darling is a book full of terrible human truths, but confronted with wit, empathy and understanding’ ABIGAIL DEAN‘An unforgettable novel, challenging uncomfortable themes with a clever, fresh perspective. A story about the horrors that unfold after horrors have unfolded. Disturbing, dark and damning’ CALLIE KAZUMI‘Once again Ella King has delivered a novel, which is emotive, powerful and deeply unsettling. Beautifully written, considered and tender, I adored it’ LV MATTHEWS‘Vivid and devastating, Ella King's Dear Darling is an incisive, nuanced and modern novel. It is confronting as it is moving and will leave you reflecting long after the last page’ ELA LEE More praise for Ella King: 'A seriously impressive new talent’ CHRIS WHITAKER‘A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book’ LISA JEWELL‘A blistering thriller’ NEW YORK TIMES‘Disturbing, poignant and memorable all at once' OBSERVER