The Last Sane Woman
(Book)

"Nicola is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. At a university archive dedicated to women's art, she discovers one side of a correspondence beginning in 1976 and spanning a dozen years, written from one woman-a ceramics graduate, uncannily like Nicola-to her friend, who is living a contrasting and conventionally moored life. As she reads on, an acute sense of affinity turns into obsession, and she abandons one job after another to make time for the archive. The litany of coincidences in the letters starts to become uncomfortably uncanny, and Nicola's feeling of ownership begets a growing dread: what if she doesn't like where the letters lead?"--