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Watch Her Fall: An utterly gripping and twisty edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller from the bestselling author

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Kelly is already known as one of the best, most original writers of psychological fiction. I have read all of her previous novels and enjoyed every one of them. This novel, Watch Her Fall, catapults her to the next level, it is a thrilling and cinematic story of control, deceit and passion. It's a story that the reader must invest heavily in, filled to the brim with layers of intrigue, told with a precision that is quite stunning and populated by characters who are never quite who they seem to be. Glitters with dark brilliance and portrays the complex, painful world of ballet with great authenticity. I loved it! - Kate Rhodes

A dancer dies twice - once when they stop dancing and this first death is the more painful.” Martha Graham. Just when I thought that thriller couldn’t surprise me any more – along comes Erin Kelly’s latest book WATCH HER FALL. Set in the world of professional ballet (who knew that behind the beauty of dance hides such brutality?) it seemed very different from any of Kelly’s previous books and I remember thinking: “Is this really a mystery?” Well, eat humble pie you distrusting reader, because once the stage was set, the first unexpected plot development sent me tumbling head over heels over the edge of the stage like a drunken ballerina in a death twirl. Wow, I did not see that coming! The story was all over the place, there were different POVs rehashing from another perspective the same scenes we had already read about, what made it a bit repetitive. There was a whole plot line that, imo, was completely expendable and I'm sure I would have enjoyed it a lot more had it centered on the ballet plot line. The tone grows darker and even more intense as the ‘Swans’ behave more like Vultures as they plot to get the upper hand- ready to effortlessly step into Ana’s position. But it seems as though someone has decided to take the competition to a whole new, and deadly level…An immersive, addictive thriller set in the high-stakes world of ballet, with a jolting twist you absolutely won't see coming - Claire McGowan, author of The Other Wife Superbly dark, gloriously twisted and utterly seductive – this is Erin Kelly at her mind-bending best’ RUTH WARE That said, we do have to accept some glaring implausibilities: that a young ballerina in a famous London company about to go on international tour doesn't have a phone or understand what data is, doesn't have a bank account and so on. There's a sort of sop to the idea of financial fraud at the end but how is an entire company with a corps of 60 not paying tax or NI if everyone's paid in cash?

Watch Her Fall takes you pirouetting into the harsh and cruel world of the artistic and classical world of ballet. It takes its inspiration from the famous ballet Swan Lake. I knew nothing of this world and even less about the story of Swan Lake but I am now fascinated by both. Twisty and brilliant and completely absorbing - not only a masterclass of a thriller but also sneakily profound about identity, ambition and greed - Bridget Collins This isn’t an easy book to review. I’m weighing up every word I type because I constantly feel like I’m on the verge of spoiler territory so this might end up being insanely vague. This is a tense, twisty, and just plain crazy read! If you are not a fan of ballet and/or don’t enjoy slow-paced character studies, this book is not for you. For those who make it through to the end, the payoff is grand! The story is told from several viewpoints and pulls no punches when describing the rigours and sacrifices needed to reach the required perfection of first ballerina. Ava’s character is easily sympathetic, she is trapped under the Svengali hold of her father. He calls all the shots including her access to money. Whilst Ava is sympathetic, she has no problem treating company dancers in a rather dismissive way and that behaviour is at odds with the readers’ instinct to care.Kelly's writing is always so beautiful; I have always said her books read like a literary thriller because her prose is gorgeous. In this case, it can be compared to the beauty of ballet with the way that her writing is both lyrical and provoking, as well as disturbing at times. This is not only my favorite book by Kelly but easily one of my favorite books this year. Brava!! Most ambitious and captivating book to date . . . so thrilling and unexpected that it made my head spin’ LISA JEWELL From the very beginning, I was swept away, utterly wrapped up in these characters’ lives. Nothing or nobody is what or who it seems. With every chapter, it felt as if everything I had read before that was turned completely onto its head. Every time I thought I was close to figuring out what was going, Erin Kelly managed to turn me around again and I swear I thought my head was going to explode. (/amateur dramatics) After years of blood, sweat and tears, ballet dancer Ava Kirilova has finally reached the top of her profession. As the poster girl for Swan Lake and the daughter of the London Russian Ballet Company’s intense and uncompromising director, Ava is both revered and feared by her fellow dancers. She might have been born to play the dual lead of Odette/Odile in her father’s hotly anticipated ballet, but Ava can’t afford to get complacent. Becoming a principal dancer is hard enough. It’s keeping your place at the top that’s the real battle – and Ava has plenty of young, hopeful and ambitious girls nipping at her heels, ready to steal her spot should she fall.

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