How can a woman who never existed come back to haunt you? Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He`s unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his personal assistant for company. But what`s really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the `real` Aubrey. But that can`t be. Aubrey`s just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago. Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived? `As if one of Philip Roth`s complicated men stumbled into a razor-sharp Stephen King plot . . . The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #metoo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling.` - Megan Abbott