Frances Fyfield: The Art of Drowning (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
A loner. A liar. A secret.
Let the games begin.
Accountant Rachel Doe leads a sheltered, beige-colored life... Until she meets Ivy, who is everything Rachel isn't. Ivy is a wild child. She is charismatic and seductive, a charmer with tragedy in her past. The two women begin an intense and unexpected friendship.

But, as the intimacy between them escalates, Rachel is drawn deeper into the darkness that surrounds Ivy -- and the secrets that hide there. In the bestselling tradition of Gone Girl and Reconstructing Amelia, this riveting psychological thriller.

Frances Fyfield: The Art of Drowning. Witness Impulse / HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780062300935 (March, 2025), eBook, 927 KB (ca. 384 p.), $9.99.

Frances Fyfield: The Art of Drowning (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
Rachel Doe is a shy accountant at a low ebb in life when she meets charismatic Ivy Schneider, nee Wiseman, at her evening class and her life changes for the better. Ivy is her polar opposite: strong, six years her senior and the romantic survivor of drug addiction, homelessness and the death of her child. Ivy does menial shift work, beholden to no one, and she inspires life; as do her farming parents, with their ramshackle house and its swan-filled lake, the lake where Ivy's daughter drowned. As Rachel grows closer to them all she learns how Ivy came to be married to Carl, the son of a WWII prisoner, as well as the true nature of that marriage to a bullying and ambitious lawyer who has become a judge and who denies her access to her surviving child. Rachel wants justice for Ivy, but Ivy has another agenda and Rachel's naïve sense of fair play is no match for the manipulative qualities of the Wisemen women.

Frances Fyfield: The Art of Drowning. Sphere, ISBN: 0751536202 (October, 2007), 372 p., £7.99.

Frances Fyfield: The Art of Drowning (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
With the skill and empathy which caused A.N. Wilson to describe her as 'the best female crime writer in this country', Frances Fyfield has produced an outstanding novel of the destruction of hatred and revenge.

Rachel Doe is a shy accountant at a low ebb in life when she meets charismatic Ivy Schneider, née Wiseman, at her evening class and her life changes for the better. Ivy is her polar oppositte: strong, six years her senior and the romantic survivor of drug addiction, homelessness and the death of her child. Ivy does menial shift work, beholden to no one, and she inspires life; as do her farming parents, with their ramshackle house and its swan-filled lake, the lake where Ivy's daughter drowned. As Rachel grows closer to them all she learns how Ivy came to be married to Carl, the son of a WWII prisoner, as well as the true nature of that marriage to a bullying and ambitious lawyer who has become a judge and who denies her access to her surviving child. Rachel wants justice for Ivy, but Ivy has another agenda and Rachel's naïve sense of fair play is no match for the manipulative qualities in the Wisemen women.

Frances Fyfield: The Art of Drowning. Little, Brown, ISBN: 0316727628 (July, 2006), 372 p., £18.99.