Christine Mangan has her PhD in English from University College Dublin, where her thesis focused on 18th-century Gothic literature, and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Southern Maine. Tangerine is her first novel.
A plot as twisty as the streets of its dazzling Tangier setting - Daily Mail As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated in a screenplay to be filmed by Hitchcock - suspenseful and atmospheric Both eerie and thrilling, the tangled knot that binds these two female characters will keep you frantically turning the pages. Tangerine dabbles in dark backstory and psychological doubt, leaving me feeling as though I've gone to Tangier, with Daphne du Maurier's literary heir as my guide - Suzanne Rindell, author of The Other Typist In her utterly transfixing debut, Christine Mangan deftly transports readers to Northern Africa at midcentury-the most glamorous possible milieu, and the ideal setting for a story of heated passion, in which friendship becomes obsession and, finally, a kind of madness - Rumaan Alam, author of Rich and Pretty Assured and atmospheric - Guardian Riveting - Woman and Home