‘Harriet Lane is a deft conjurer of menacing middle-class scenarios. In her 2012 debut, Alys, Always, the unfulfilled Frances exploits a car crash victim’s dying words to insinuate her way into the lives of the dead woman’s literary family. It earned Lane comparisons with Patricia Highsmith and Anita Brookner.
‘This second novel also involves envious women pressing their noses up to the window of another’s glossier-seeming life. In Her, a taut revenge drama, the same events are recounted in alternate chapters from the separate perspectives of two women in their late 30s who have met by apparent accident.’

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