Teaching with the British Ballet Organisation. Her first two novels, The Dance of the Dolls and The Sleeping Beauties, were inspired by her years immersed in the world of classical dance.
Ashe's new novel is The Model Patient.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "six novels that reveal how terrifying it is to have one’s sense of reality systematically dismantled by the person we are supposed to love and trust." One title on the list:
Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnRead about another entry on Ashe's list.
Reporter Camille Preaker returns to the place where she grew up to investigate the unsolved murder of a teenage girl and the disappearance of another.Her own trauma and self-harm are triggered through this homecoming, particularly by facing her mother, Adora, who disguises control as care. It is in Adora’s treatment of her daughters, keeping them physically and emotionally sick, isolating them from the outside world, and feigning ignorance as a defense mechanism, that the horror resides. Gillian Flynn does not shy away from the darkest of human behaviors, and Sharp Objects is one of those books where you simply cannot look away.
Sharp Objects is among Claire Douglas's ten top psychological thrillers with explosive family secrets, Allison Gunn's seven top horror novels set in small towns, Lucy Foley's six top stories of folk horror, Katherine Higgs-Coulthard's top six crime-in-the-family thrillers, Zach Vasquez's seven dark novels about motherhood, Christina Dalcher's seven crime books that challenge the idea of inherent female goodness, Nicole Trope's six domestic suspense novels where nothing is really ever what it seems, Heather Gudenkauf's ten great thrillers centered on psychology, and Peter Swanson's ten top thrillers that explore mental health.
--Marshal Zeringue
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