The most mesmerising, unsettling novel of 2025, perfect for fans of David Mitchell, Julia Armfield, and Margaret Atwood.Sinister, mysterious and gorgeously realised KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of TimeOld Soul will sneak into your dreams and haunt you CLAIRE FULLER, author of Unsettled GroundThe woman never goes by the same name.She never stays in the same place too long.She never ages. She never dies.But those around her do.When two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jakes best friend and Marikos twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.Each encountered a mesmerising, darkhaired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko and then disappeared.Jake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Marikos revelations. Its a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways and those they left behind bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.And, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.But will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?Snags the reader in its claw and mesmerizes from page one Monique Roffey,...

Binding: Hardback;336 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 622 g; Dimensions: 161 x 241 x 31

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