It was more about a lot of the #MeToo stuff, sexual assault, and all these other components. It’s not that there wasn’t worrying about that for the last few years leading up to it, but it was uncanny, because when I started it, that wasn’t really on anyone’s mind. Weirdly, I finished the novel before that, and in fact, my editor was reading it the day of the overturning. Wade being overturned play a part as well? Someone’s going to do a dissertation someday on post-lockdown fiction. I think if I were to psychoanalyze it now, I think that had to be a big factor. I ended up drawing on a lot of the anxieties about being stuck, not being able to have a routine, having all these things taken away from you: not being able to see people, the dreaded no Wi-Fi, no cell phones, no service. There were so many ways to distract our attention, and I thought that writing a book in this really compressed timeline and location would ground me. Part of it was that it was very hard, in some ways, to write during lockdown, even though we all had more time. I have to believe I was thinking of that, but I do tend to write rather claustrophobic books. Q: When you were writing it, did you make the connection between being in lockdown, and working on this book that’s really claustrophobic? It can feel like this weirdly alien experience to see how different your significant other can be when brought back down to their family’s perception of them. It’s always sort of mystifying to me, but sometimes you end up with someone where you haven’t seen them interact with their family until you’re well into the relationship, and that’s when a lot of other qualities emerge. There’s also that romantic haze of being early in a relationship that Jacy is in, and how you don’t really know that much about the other person. I just kept thinking about it, and it became a sort of a combination of all of my worst fears. But it was also coming out of a lot of fear about the rhetoric in the last few years about women’s bodies, and it was just sort of plucking my anxieties about that. The fact that it’s all set in one confined location for the most part comes from having written during the pandemic. Q: Where did the idea for this novel come from? This conversation has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. Ash’s house - and that her husband and father-in-law might not be what they seem.Ībbott answered questions about “Beware the Woman” via telephone from New York, where she lives. After Jacy experiences a medical scare, she starts to feel like she’s being trapped in Dr. The couple takes a road trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she meets Jed’s father, Dr. The book follows Jacy, who has just married a man named Jed, with whom she’s expecting a child. Putnam’s Sons, also doesn’t shy away from the dark - in fact, it revels in it. Her latest novel, “Beware the Woman,” out now from G.P. Related: Sign up for our free newsletter about books, authors, reading and more She’s also a television writer who worked on David Simon and George Pelecanos’ HBO show “The Deuce,” and served as a writer and executive producer on USA Network’s series adaptation of “Dare Me.” Her bestselling “The Turnout,” published in 2021, told the dark story of a family-run ballet studio wracked by a terrible accident. Her 2012 novel “Dare Me” dealt with a mysterious death in the world of competitive cheerleading, while “You Will Know Me,” published four years later, explored the cutthroat world of gymnastics. Since then, she’s kept the thrillers coming. The author made her fiction debut in 2005 with her hardboiled novel “Die a Little,” set in the noir-ish world of 1950s Los Angeles it was published to rave reviews.
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