Celebrate the Launch of New Girl, Alison Stockham's latest book.

The letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna’s perfect life apart.

A baby scan photo.

Anna and Jon have been trying for a baby with no success, so after years of disappointment, this feels like a kick in the teeth.

Who sent it? And why?

Anna’s thoughts fall on Grace – the keen young woman Jon hired at their printing business. Something about Grace isn’t quite right. She asks too many questions and makes Anna nervous but she can’t work out why.

And she can’t deny she sees the way her husband looks at her.

All she knows is this baby scan might tear her marriage apart…

Join us to celebrate this fantastic new novel and to meet hear how Alison created it.

Alison is the author of three psychological domestic thrillers, The Cuckoo Sister, The Silent Friend & The New Girl. Her debut The Cuckoo Sister, was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2020 and was a top ten kindle bestseller in its first month. The Silent Friend, hit the UK and US Top 20 Crime chart. The New Girl publishes in April 2024.

Having spent 15 years working in film and television production, mostly for the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky, Alison turned her focus back to creative writing, working for Cambridge Literary Festival and working on her books. Alison’s short story, An Unexpected Visitor, was included in the charity anthology Everyday Kindness, in aid of Shelter, published by Dark Skies in November 2021 and then her novels, published by Boldwood Books, followed in 2023.

She lives in Cambridge with her husband, two daughters and a cat. You can follow her on Twitter @AlisonStockam, on Instagram @AStockhamAuthor or Facebook @AlisonStockhamAuthor.

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