Cold Light: A Novel
&#8220;Evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell.&#8221; (The Times (London))&#8220;Hugely readable debut novel [&#8230;] about the inability to know others and ourselves.&#8221; (The Independent)&#8220;Extremely intense and powerfully intriguing.&#8221; (Waterstone's)&#8216;Ashworth has the rare gift of being able to make her reader feel perverse and voyeuristic, implicated somehow in the tragedy laid out on the pages.&#8217; (Sunday Times (London))A grimly atmospheric mystery. (Sunday Express (London))A psychological thriller of the first order. (The Age (Australia))Another cleverly skewed tale told from the self-conscious perspective of an outsider... arrestingly observant... Ashworth&#8217;s second book confirms that the first was no one-off... her talent could take her a long way&#8217; (The Guardian)A wonderful tale, beautifully told. (Bella)A chilling, blackly funny novel with a surreal edge about the intensity of teenage friendship. (Grazia)