The Other Girl

CD MAJOR (THOMAS & MERCER, £8.99)

New Zealand, 1942. When a ward in the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum is destroyed by fire, only two people make it out alive. One is Edith, who has been incarcerated there since she was just five years old, after she terrified her parents with her outbursts about the Other Girl, one who died in a terrible way years before Edith was born. Now 20, Edith captures the attention of Seacliff’s new young doctor, the impressionable Declan. Captivated by her, he starts digging into her stories, and starts to wonder if she is insane after all… Steeped in atmosphere and entwining a sinister mystery with ticking-clock thrills, this is the definition of a page turner. ★★★★