Swan song - Kelleigh Greenberg-jephcott

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION `Scandalous' DAILY MAIL `Spellbinding' SUNDAY EXPRESS `Sparkling' GUARDIAN `Fascinating' RED `Remarkable' WOMAN AND HOME `Astounding' EMERALD STREET `Glamorous' IRISH TIMES ___________________________ To the outside world, they were the icons of high society - the most glamorous and influential women of their age.

To Truman Capote they were his Swans: the ideal heroines, as vulnerable as they were powerful.

They trusted him with their most guarded, martini-soaked secrets, each believing she was more special and loved than the next.

Until he betrayed them.

`Writers write.

And one can't be surprised if they write what they know.

' ______________________________ `The new Donna Tartt' VOGUE 'A dazzlingly assured first novel.

This clever book, with the moreish astringency of a negroni, is a perfect summer cocktail.

' SUNDAY TIMES 'A whirlwind of a first novel.

There is great pathos in the Swans' woundings and in their inevitable decline.

And the character of Truman himself shimmers through the novel in a wonderful blaze of eccentricity and excess.

Outstanding.

' ROSE TREMAIN 'A completely fascinating novel and a marvellously skilful re-imagining of real people, times and places.

Outstanding.

' WILLIAM BOYD 'Our generation's The Secret History' PENDORA 'Brilliantly written, deeply researched, funny, sharp and moving.

' - KATE WILLIAMS, bestselling author of Josephine 'Brilliantly captures Capote's acid wit and his dramatic downfall.

' THE TIMES, Books of the Year 'This is a first novel of extraordinary skill, a book of which Capote would have been proud' OBSERVER 'Greenberg-Jephcott's debut is a devastating read that blurs the lines between vulnerability and narcissism; sex and power.

will have you racing breathlessly towards the end' THE POOL.