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Emma van Straaten is a writer of British Mauritian heritage living in London with her husband and two children.
In 2021, she won the inaugural Women’s Prize Discoveries Award with an early partial draft of her debut novel, which is about a young woman who becomes obsessed by the man whose flat she cleans. Described as “a chilling book by an exciting new voice” by Vogue, it explores issues of class, race, gender, body image and shame.
This is her first novel; it is published in the UK under the title This Immaculate Body, and in the USA as Creep: A Love Story.
In 2021, she won the inaugural Women’s Prize Discoveries Award with an early partial draft of her debut novel, which is about a young woman who becomes obsessed by the man whose flat she cleans. Described as “a chilling book by an exciting new voice” by Vogue, it explores issues of class, race, gender, body image and shame.
This is her first novel; it is published in the UK under the title This Immaculate Body, and in the USA as Creep: A Love Story.
Emma van Straaten recommends
Life Cycle of a Moth (2025)
Rowe Irvin
"I was immediately enthralled by the sheer force of Rowe's writing. She captures so beautifully the feral innocence of a young woman brought up away from everything, fluent only in finding food, physical pleasure and pain, the changing seasons. It is a complete immersion in Daughter's wild, twisted worldview . . . I have not been able to stop thinking about Life Cycle of a Moth since I finished it; my thoughts keep returning to the cottage in the compound; this intensely haunted and haunting space and its vital and troubled inhabitants. Lyrical, unrestrained, transgressive, moving - with moments of pure poetry. Absolutely gorgeously written, it left me at once hopeful and bereft."
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