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The Eighth Girl Paperback – 4 May 2021
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Alexa Wu is a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a series of alternate personalities. Only three people know about their existence: her therapist Daniel; her stepmother Anna; and her enigmatic best friend Ella.
When Ella gets a job at a high-end gentleman's club, she is gradually drawn into London's cruel underbelly. With lives at stake, Alexa follows her friend on a daring rescue mission. Threatened and vulnerable, she will discover whether her multiple personalities are her greatest asset, or her biggest obstacle.
- Print length480 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPushkin Vertigo
- Publication date4 May 2021
- Dimensions16.4 x 22.5 x 3.1 cm
- ISBN-101782277528
- ISBN-13978-1782277521
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'Wow. Totally original, gorgeously written, brimming with insight and intelligence' - Katie Lowe, author of THE FURIES
About the Author
Originally trained in the arts, she previously worked as a creative director for ten years at Conde Nast, The Sunday Times and The Times. Maxine completed the Faber Academy advanced novel-writing course and currently works in private practice, where she has a particular interest in the creative feminine, advocating for women and girls finding a voice. She lives in London with her son.
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- Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo (4 May 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 480 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1782277528
- ISBN-13 : 978-1782277521
- Dimensions : 16.4 x 22.5 x 3.1 cm
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About the author

Maxine Mei-Fung Chung is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and training psychotherapist. She lectures on trauma, gender and sexuality and clinical dissociation.
Originally trained in the arts, she previously worked as a creative director for ten years at Condé Nast, The Sunday Times, and The Times (London).
Maxine currently works in private practice where she has a particular interest in the creative feminine, advocating for women and girls finding a voice. She lives in London with her son. The Eighth Girl is her debut novel.
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A prologue has her on Archway bridge in north London, about to jump.
Then the long flashback of her therapy (short chapters mainly relating what she’s doing in the present), and with her best friend Ella (these ‘beautiful’ young women with interestingly creative jobs and living at home without money worries) increasingly involved with a sex club acting as a front for trafficking underage Chinese girls. The psychological mystery (not very mysterious, really, these disparate personalities chatting and reacting differently to things) morphs into a kind of action thriller where however the protagonists are never in danger and the outcome is not in doubt.
The big reveal at the end is pretty much what the attentive reader expected, and doesn't reframe our view of the protagonist or her experience in any significant way.
The language is US English although the settings and characters are all London.
A potboiler designed for young city women and worldwide (esp. US) marketing.

Shame about all the incongruous Americanisms - bangs, grade school, license, Xanax, pedophile...


