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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
The Honeymoon Suite (2026)
Rebecca Taylor McKay
"A seductive and secretive novel, simmering with threat. And the ending! Just glorious. I loved it."
Death Do Us (2026)
Ruthy Mason
"A gloriously visceral feminist body horror about the rotten institution of marriage? Sign me up. I was hooked by this queasy, crawling, darkly funny novel that kept me guessing until the very end. Wry, revolting, witty and wonderful, I couldn't look away even as I longed to cover my eyes. Sharply written and entirely compelling."
A Good Person (2026)
Kirsten King
"I adored this deliciously acidic, addictive novel. Lillian is my favorite kind of heroine, interior, self-interested and dripping with venom. Her grotesque worldview is, in turn, funny, tragic, minutely observed and worryingly relatable. Poisonous, giddy, excruciating, delightful - an exceptional debut."
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