Sabine Durrant is best known for the Sabine Durrant Interview in The Guardian. She was The Guardian's Deputy Features Editor and prior to that was Deputy Literary Editor at The Sunday Times. She lives in London.
The Switch (2024) Lily Samson "Utterly compulsive and the ultimate 'what if.' I loved the relationship between the two women and the way something quite ordinary and relatable quickly spins so dangerously out of control."
Happily Never After (2024) Rachel North "Totally engrossing. I loved the setting and the range of characters; all so blissfully untrustworthy. Creepy and compulsive but also enormous fun."
Widowland (2021) (Widowland, book 1) C J Carey "I am in awe at the author's imagination, her ability to conjure and so cleverly convey an entire world - it manages to feel both chillingly dystopian and utterly realistic. I love the details of the office, and Rose's flat, and her bus rides, but most of all I loved the description of the Oxford Widowlands, and the women who inhabit it - Viva the Friedas!"
Fragile (2021) Sarah Hilary "So Gothically creepy and addictive, brilliant characters and set up, but most of all just beautifully written."
Brixton Hill (2020) Lottie Moggach "Brixton Hill is brilliant. So utterly gripping and clever and heartbreaking. The details of the prison and the sense of being poised-over-the-abyss are acutely conjured and yet never overload the nail-biting nature of the story."
The Eighth Girl (2020) Maxine Mei-Fung Chung "I am so impressed. I love Chung's writing: The sheer joy she takes in the tones of the separate personalities, and the skill of her negotiation of what is actually a very complicated plot. It's a brave and ambitious book."
You Let Me In (2018) Lucy Clarke "Wonderfully atmospheric with a brilliantly creepy setting and deliciously shifty characters. I gulped it in."
All the Hidden Truths (2018) (DI Helen Birch, book 1) Claire Askew "This is a such a clever, brave book. Askew looks unflinchingly at the unimaginable, but her writing is wrought with compassion. It's as heart-rending as it is gripping."
The Night Visitor (2017) Lucy Atkins "Wonderfully creepy, in that clever way that is tied in with character as much as plot and setting."