The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Paperback Published on: 19/05/2022
Price: £9.99
Synopsis
'Chilling.' Vogue
'As unusual as it is alluring.' Elle
'Delightfully disturbing.' Refinery 29
'Very powerful.' Sayaka Murata
'Disquieting.' Paula Hawkins
'You will be obsessed.' Leila Slimani
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes; what she eats; whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn't a stalker - it's much more complicated than that.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- ISBN: 9780571364688
- Number of pages: 224
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm
- Weight: 189g
- Languages: English
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Short but excellent
This is a very short book and so pretty quick to read. It does tale a while to get going but when it does it is hard to put down. The book is about manipul... READ MORE
entertaining
I don’t know what I was expecting from this book, but it was a pleasant surprise.
It has such a good pace, and it is very easy to read, it gets. A bit con... READ MORE
What starts as a quirky tale slowly (but surely) becomes darker and darker when slander and violence kick off, the results of a vile man’s actions and our heroine’s naïveté.
‘’Some people would pretend they hadn’t seen her, and carry on as before. Others would quickly move aside, to give her room to pass. Some would pump their ... READ MORE
Quirky and Intriguing
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I've been wanting to become the friend of the Woman in the Purple Skirt for a very long time . . .
The Woman in t... READ MORE
Quick and quirky
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is a short, weird, voyeuristic novel narrated by The Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who has an unhealthy fascination with Ms P... READ MORE
Love this kind of translated fiction!
After enjoying This is Amiko, Do You Copy? I wanted to read Natsuko Imamura’s most well known publication, The Woman in the Purple Skirt. I would still say... READ MORE
ARC
Almost every day, the Woman in the Purple Skirt buys a single cream bun and goes to the park, where she sits on a bench to eat it as the local children tau... READ MORE
Save your money and time!
Perhaps too slow…when I was on page 86, still finding very dull, I had to give myself a reason “don’t waste money” to convince myself to finish this. But i... READ MORE
Single female stalker fiction
In buying a bun every day and eating it on the same park bench, The Woman in a Purple Skirt becomes the obsession of the lesser woman in a yellow cardigan.... READ MORE
A short and gripping read
Thank you for the advanced digital copy NetGalley and Faberbooks!
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is a short, weird and engaging story told by our stalker, ... READ MORE
Original and refreshing take on obsession..
This was an unexpectedly quirky and refreshing take on the obsessional friendship trope, a theme I’ve loved ever since watching Single White Female back in... READ MORE
Great book
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is a story of obsession. It is told through the eyes of the woman in the yellow cardigan who watches the woman in the purple ... READ MORE