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*LAST CHANCE* Win review copies of Teddy by Emily Dunclay

Fourth Estate are excited to offer reading groups 10 advanced proof copies of Teddy, 4th Estate’s lead summer fiction debut for 2024.

‘Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted’ - Sunday Times Style

‘Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive’ - Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable

About Teddy

It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue: the stars of Cinecittà are drinking and dancing along the paparazzo-lined Via Veneto, rubbing shoulders with royalty, American expats, and sometimes even Russian spies. Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. She’s earned a fresh start. In Rome, Teddy will be good. She will wear the right clothes and the perfect lipstick and she will charm her husband’s colleagues at the Embassy.

And Teddy is good, until the Fourth of July, when her new life explodes alongside the fireworks above her head. She is caught on camera in the arms of the American ambassador just moments after spotting a man from the darkest corner of her past across the room. There it is, the evidence of her depravity, on film. Trying to recover the photographs and keep her reputation intact, Teddy descends into the underbelly of the city…but is she in over her head?

How to get involved

To be in with a chance of winning 10 advanced proof copies of Teddy to read and review with your reading group please log in and complete the survey below by 5 March. If successful, each of your members will be expected to share a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Waterstones or the Reading Groups for Everyone website within six weeks of receiving the books. Please only pitch if you can commit to this.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Fill in this survey by at 4pm on 13 March.

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