Cherry by Rose Wilding - ISBN: 9781399805148
Paperback
Grief, reinvention, and a dangerous web of obsession. Someone will die.
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Cherry

It starts as a love song. It ends with murder

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    2 November 2026

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Summary

1999

Gifty is a woman adrift in the wake of her wife’s death. She’s living in stasis, unable to bring herself to enter the bedroom where Helen died after a long illness. Her therapist tells her to confront her grief, but instead she wanders the streets looking for someone from her past.

Fallen nineties pop star Isobel has done everything she can to reinvent herself. Gone is the girlish make-up and provocative manner. When she lands a job working for a middle-c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399805148
ISBN-10:1399805142
Author:Rose Wilding
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:Baskerville
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:2 November 2026
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
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Critics Review

Rose Wilding writes with a rare and unsettling honesty. A feverish spiral of grief, desire, and betrayal, laced with unease and menace. Cherry is the sort of aching book that smoulders to the very last page. A lethal and seductive thriller – Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMBPraise for Speak of the Devil -A clever and utterly absorbing thriller which marks the arrival of an author to watch * i News *A powerful feminist thriller … twisted in the best way – Clémence Michallon, author of THE QUIET TENANTA devilishly immersive read - Rose Wilding is a wonderful new talent – Kamila Shamsie, author of HOME FIREBeautiful, gripping writing … a mesmerising, moving story that is impossible to look away from. Superb! – Gytha Lodge author of LITTLE SISTERTruly outstanding – C. J. Skuse, author of SWEETPEA

About The Author

Rose Wilding

Rose Wilding is a crime writer from Newcastle upon Tyne. She studied Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. When not murdering fictional people, she can usually be found drinking coffee, reading feminist sci-fi, or posting more pictures than anyone needs of her two chihuahuas on Instagram.

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