Other People's Clothes

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'A sparkling debut... a very good plot-driven thriller dressed in a glittery jumpsuit' Guardian. 'Brutal, glamorous and genuinely unpredictable, it will blow your mind until the ve ry last page' Stylist. Intoxicating, compulsive and blackly funny, Other People's Clothes is the thrilling novel from Berlin-based American artist Calla Henkel. Berlin, 2009. Two young art students arrive from New York, desperately hoping to reinvent themselves.Renting an apartment from an eccentric crime writer, Zoe and Hailey spend their nights twisting through Berlin's club scene and their days hungover. Then inexplicable things start happening in the apartment. Are they being spied on? Suspecting their landlady of using their lives for her next novel, they decide to beat her at her own game, hosting wild parties that quickly gain notoriety.But as events spiral out of control, they begin to wonder whose story they are living - and how it will end. 'Utterly addictive. I couldn't stop turning the pages' Megan Abbott. Show more