Female, Nude

An energetic and ambitious novel. Cosslett is excellent at the sensual detail of light and food and physical pleasure; she immediately engages us with a seductive drama of friendship between women in an exotic and glamorous White Lotus-like location, while at the same time offering a serious-minded interrogation of art… a thoroughly enjoyable read * Guardian *
This smart and sexy read … has lots to say about female artists and domesticity, women’s bodies and the male gaze * Good Housekeeping *
A grown-up book that’s magnetically written * Stylist *
This book is as sharp and incisive as her non-fiction, but with a sinewy, sultry quality that makes it really moreish. I was surprised by the ending - it was neater and sweeter than I expected, the perfect palate cleanser to the bitterness and recrimination that had been building - but I loved it’ – Pandora Sykes
I was engrossed… It’s stylish and sexy and I loved the setting and all the food – Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun and The Instant
A beautifully human story, romantic and heady and violent and sexy and gorgeously realised. It is honestly the best thing I have read this year – Kirsty Capes, author of The Girls and Careless
An intelligently nuanced and provocative exploration of female desire, motherhood and creativity. A very sexy, deceptively readable novel, which delves into deep questions with an alluring lightness of touch. You need to preorder this right now! – Elizabeth Morris * Crib Notes *
What a gorgeous, hot-blooded novel about art, the senses, and the multitudes of the female body – Charlotte Runcie, author of Bring the House Down
Such a thought-provoking, sexy, immersive read… a sun-soaked love letter to complicated women and female artists – Cesca Major, author of Maybe Next Time and If I Were You
A gorgeous, sultry novel about the push and pull of desire, and an artist living in a world that asks too much of a woman – Szilvia Molnar, author of The Nursery
Emotionally precise and devastating, hopeful and singular – Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of The Lasting Harm
Clever, tense, erotic, with a deftness of touch that packs a feminist punch – Jessica Cornwell, author of Birth Notes
Positively thrums with tension. Erotic, sensuous and eviscerating – Lori Inglis Hall, author of The Shock of the Light
A deeply enjoyable, compelling, and moving meditation on womanhood, desire, and the impulse to create. Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s glistening prose is a delight – Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women
What a sharp, beautiful meditation on the female body. This is a quietly stunning novel that I think will have an enduring impact on its readers – Emily Howes, author of The Painter’s Daughters
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett masterfully weaves themes of friendship, art and desire into a taut, tense novel about four women holidaying together on a Greek island. Bold and beguiling - as well as utterly transportive - Female, Nude explores the nuances of feminine power and identity, and seduces in the very best way. This is summer reading that leaves you feeling a little smarter, a little changed – Hannah Richell, author of The Search Party and The River Home
This is a sex-on-the-beach cocktail garnished with a polemic on the female gaze. Cosslett writes wonderfully * Irish Times *
A literary novel that has all the propulsion of a thriller. Smart, sharp and sexy – Georgina Moore, author of The Garnett Girls

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is the author of the memoir The Year of the Cat, a previous novel The Tyranny of Lost Things, and a collection of her Guardian columns, The Republic of Parenthood. She also reviews fiction for the Guardian and her journalism has appeared in Vogue, the Observer Magazine, i newspaper, TIME, the New Statesman, Stylist, Elle, and many more. Raised in Wales, she lives in north London with her husband, son, and cat, Mackerel.

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