By day, Kate van der Borgh is a freelance copywriter, and by night, she’s usually composing or playing music. She grew up in Lancashire and went on to study music at Cambridge, so there’s a reasonable amount of her in her narrator—including the fact that she was a pianist and reluctant bassoonist. She has, however, never had reason to suspect that her best friend has occult powers. Her short fiction has been published by The Fiction Desk, and she’s a graduate of Faber’s six-month Writing a Novel course. She is based in London.
This may haunt my dreams for a long time to come. Beautifully dark, the complexities of Russell Group university life are entangled with toxic friendship - or is friendship too strong a word? One of those books that I want to re-read to see if I made assumptions or whether the final words were the true story all along. Highly recommended. Huge thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the chance to review.