The Other Typist

Suzanne Rindell

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English

Penguin
14 March 2014

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Gone Girl meets The Great Gatsby, as a female typist at a New York police station in the Roaring Twenties becomes obsessed with the new woman in the typing pool.

New York City, 1924-

the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side. Every day Rose transcribes the confessions of gangsters and murderers - and while she may disapprove of the details, she prides herself on typing up the goriest of crimes without batting an eyelid.

But when the captivating Odalie begins at the precinct Rose finds herself falling under the new typist's spell. As the two girls' friendship blossoms, it is not long before Rose's fascination for her new colleague turns to obsession.

But just who is the real Odalie, and how far will Rose go to find out?

By: Suzanne Rindell
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780241963746
ISBN 10: 0241963745
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 14 March 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Suzanne Rindell is a doctoral student in American modernist literature at Rice University. The Other Typist is her first novel. She lives in New York City and is currently working on a second novel.

Reviews for The Other Typist

Darkly, addictively entertaining, with a plot twist Hitchcock would have been proud of The Sunday Times An unreliable narrator makes this enchanting jazz-age thriller a clever and addictive debut Guardian A sleek story of dangerous shenanigans, bootleggers and unreliable narrators, set in the unflappable Jazz Age Marie Claire The real thrill of this book is that nothing is what it seems. Not least Rose, who reveals herself to be the most untrustworthy of storytellers ... the book turns into an elegantly controlled emotional thriller with so many twists and turns that there is every chance you will have to read it in one sitting. Hard to believe this is Rindell's first book - and I'm already looking forward to her second Daily Mail