That Green Eyed Girl: Be transported to mid-century New York in this evocative and page-turning debut

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In an apartment on the lower East Side, two school teachers Dovie and Gillian live the seemingly innocent and care-free lives of lodgers just trying to get by in their jobs and private lives always enjoying each other’s company as good friends. Not only assured, pacy and involving, but both heartbreaking and heartmending' HOPE ADAMS, AUTHOR OF DANGEROUS WOMEN

A gorgeous, evocative novel that's part love story, part coming of age and part mystery. But all parts are superlative! * Red Online * The moment Judith steps into Dovie and Gillian’s home, she is like a telescreen from George Orwell’s 1984. She slyly invades the couple’s safe haven, while ‘her reaction to getting caught trespassing [is] laughter.’ Judith is a jealous and ‘lonely’ character with some narcissistic tendencies, but it’s never revealed what caused her to be this way, which is why, though the ending is satisfying, it’s not quite fulfilling enough, at least not where Judith is concerned. Not only assured, pacy and involving, but both heartbreaking and heartmending Hope Adams, author of Dangerous Women Prepare to lose yourself in a tale of love, loss and deceit’ SARA COX, RADIO 2 DJ AND HOST OF BBC 2’S BETWEEN THE COVERS It's beautifully written and particularly wonderful on forbidden love, loss and forgiveness * Daily Mail *

Twenty years later in the same apartment, Ava Winters is keeping her own secret. Her mother has become erratic, haunted by something Ava doesn’t understand – until one sweltering July morning, she disappears. That Green Eyed Girl takes hold of you and draws you along. I loved the little connective details between the timelines and the unravelling of the gentle mystery of it all. Hits a perfect bittersweet note - I predict big things Kate Sawyer, author of The Stranding

Wonderful . . . utterly transported me to the jazz bars and stuffy apartments of New York, while telling a moving and compelling story about a time in history I knew little about Set in the smoky jazz bars of 1950s New York, this debut novel by Julie Owen Moylan brings to life an array of powerful, bold and complicated women - all of whom have their own stories and secrets. The mystery at hand is soft and gently unfolds to climax into a satisfying but heartbreaking ending Evening Standard, Best Thrillers Books to read in 2022The mystery at the heart of this novel had me hooked from the start. I spent a weekend sitting in 1950s bars, listening to jazz with Gillian and Dovie, then skipping ahead twenty years to walk the same streets with Ava, remembering the awkwardness of being a teenager. Heartbreaking but with a satisfying ending, I will remember this book for a long time." - Louise Hare How the three women are connected is tantalisingly revealed in this evocative tale Good Housekeeping Twenty years later 16 year old Ava is intrigued by a box of mementoes that arrives from Paris. Given her father is having an affair, and her mother is suffering from psychological difficulties – both are emotionally unavailable to her – it is thus down to her to find out more about the intended recipient. The photo of a female with LIAR scrawled across it particularly piques her interest and she goes on a circuitous route to discover the woman’s identity, ably assisted by her best friend. The mystery at the heart of this novel had me hooked from the start. I spent a weekend sitting in 1950s bars, listening to jazz with Gillian and Dovie, then skipping ahead twenty years to walk the same streets with Ava, remembering the awkwardness of being a teenager. Heartbreaking but with a satisfying ending, I will remember this book for a long time Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City This is a story with a dual timeline predominantly set in an apartment in New York City in 1975 and 1955.

This is a wonderfully written book that touches on the stigma and treatment of gay women and mental health patients in America, heartbreak and bravery, and how to say enough is enough and take control of your own life. It’s written with such care and detail, and honest to gods, this book broke my heart in multiple places. I've spent the whole day reading this mesmerising book. Such a devastating, gripping story and stunning, powerful writing. Once I started I just could not stop -- Aliya Ali-Afzal, author of Would I Lie to You I so enjoyed That Green Eyed Girl. The atmosphere of city heat and dust and stifling apartments was so vividly evoked. And I was equally invested in both narrative strands . . . I was hooked from the beginning Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures Set in mid-century New York, the story centres around the occupants of the same Lower East Side apartment, twenty years apart.I so enjoyed That Green Eyed Girl. The atmosphere of city heat and dust and stifling apartments was so vividly evoked. And I was equally invested in both narrative strands . . . I was hooked from the beginning." - Clare Chambers