By Eva Figes
Introduction by Susan Faludi
In acclaimed author Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller, Nelly's Version—part dark comedy, part mystery novel— offers an unsettling journey into the mind of a witty, intelligent woman stuck in a pastless present.
ISBN: 9781628976618
Pub Date: 8/16/26
Description
A middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia checks into a small-town hotel under the pseudonym Nelly Dean with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it, or she, came from. Distrustful of everyone from the waiter who serves her lunch to a store clerk who claims to know her from grade school, Nelly fears she is part of a conspiracy, although she is strangely indifferent to the clues that might explain her puzzling circumstances. Rather, she remains blissfully unaffected despite the many crimes occurring around her, whether it be an elderly woman getting attacked on the street, a bank robbery, or a house burning to ash. Named after the housekeeper in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Nelly Dean is an endearingly deranged character who will fascinate and excite readers in this haunting literary thriller.
Biographical Information
Eva Figes is the author of over a dozen novels as well as written works on literary criticism, feminism, and memoirs. Born in Berlin in 1932, Figes was a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany before her family relocated to the UK in 1939. In the 1960s she was inducted into an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B.S. Johnson.
Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A contributing editor for Newsweek and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Double Take, and The Nation. She lives in Los Angeles.