# Creep: A Love Story

Emma van Straaten

## Description
"Creep is everything I want from a novel—it’s obsessive, it’s rapturous, it spirals into the most masochistic corners of the mind. A perfectly twisted debut." —Anna Dorn, author of _Perfume & Pain_

"A chilling book by an exciting new voice." —Vogue (UK)

From a blistering new voice in dark literary fiction, an unsettling portrait of loneliness, obsession, and identity which asks: if a stranger was left alone in your house, how well could they truly get to know you—enough to fall in love with you?

**Alice and Tom are made for each other.** Deeply connected, they share a flat in London, go to galleries together, enjoy the same books and wine. They even share a toothbrush. It’s all picture perfect.

**Except Alice and Tom have never met.** Alice has been cleaning Tom’s apartment every Wednesday for a year. With every smudge wiped from his coffee cup, every multivitamin counted in the jar, Alice spirals deeper into infatuation, imagining a love so powerful it might erase a lifetime of self-hatred and loneliness.

**But as Alice prepares for the moment when she and Tom will finally meet face-to-face,** she discovers that love might not be the cure she thought it was. Instead, the line between fantasy and reality becomes ever more blurred, shattering everything Alice thought she knew.

**Told in Alice’s compelling, deliciously acidic voice, Creep is a literary study of unreliability and unlikability.** Exploring alienation, class, and race, it's a skilled debut with resonance in the way that we view women, mental health, and the lost in society.

*Published as _This Immaculate Body_ in the UK*

## [Bookshop Link](https://bookshop.org/a/86720/9780063411012)

## [Amazon Link](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063411016?tag=meaganbarne09-20)

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