Teddy

‘Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted’Sunday Times Style

‘Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive’ Daisy Buchanan

‘Mad Men meets White Lotus'Red

'Stylish and twisting' The Times

'A wild ride and a heck of a lot of fun' iNews

Teddy has earned a fresh start. But some secrets just won't stay hidden…

It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue. Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. After some wayward years of bad men and bad decisions, she’s promised herself a fresh start. In Rome, Teddy will be good. She will wear the right clothes and the perfect lipstick and she will charm her husband’s colleagues at the Embassy.

And Teddy is good, until the Fourth of July, when her new life explodes with the fireworks above her head. She is caught on camera in the arms of the American ambassador just moments after spotting a man from the darkest corner of her past across the room. There it is: the evidence of her depravity on film. Trying to recover the photographs and keep her reputation intact, Teddy descends into the dark underbelly of the city… but is she in over her head?

What readers are saying about Teddy…

'Will absolutely be the hottest book of the summer'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'1960s glamour packed with suspense'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Claustrophobic and glamorous'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Gripping and thrilling'⭐⭐���⭐⭐


Genre: Historical

"As if Mad Men had a baby with The White Lotus, this novel has it all: atmosphere, glamour, danger, a heroine at the center of a web she doesn't understand, so you want to protect her even as you cheer for her to escape. Teddy is the beautiful flaw, the ungovernable passion at the center of every woman that makes us perfectly imperfect, human, and real." - Jenna Blum

"A smart page turner with an irresistible heroine - glamorous, exuberant, and propulsive, this is a story that will stay with me for a long time." - Daisy Buchanan

"Teddy is a luscious joyride of a novel, a portrait of a lady who's a beautiful welter of lust, appetite, and longing. Teddy is Lily Bart with gusto and moxie, Isabel Archer with tenacious grit. I rooted for her gleefully until the surprise ending, which Dunlay pulls off with sly, masterful timing. Glamorous and suspenseful, this is a literary romp." - Kate Christensen

"I loved the claustrophobic, glamourous world Emily Dunlay has created in Teddy, a heroine who will make your heart flutter. There is a timelessness to Teddy's feelings of constraint and guilt and trying to be all things to all to people, that too many women will still recognise all too well. A heady, steamy novel about desire for people, possessions and ultimately the self." - Araminta Hall

"Teddy is a glitteringly glamorous and gossipy trip to 1960s Rome with a chaotically charming protagonist and a transporting setting, all with a mystery at its heart. Dunlay's gorgeously immersive novel will fill a Lessons in Chemistry shaped hole on your shelf (and heart)." - Ellery Lloyd