Julie Tudor Is Not A Psychopath 🔪

By Jennifer Holdich.

Meet Julie Tudor: spreadsheet enthusiast, homeowner, lover of Sean, and... definitely not a psychopath.

At least, that’s what she tells herself. And us. Repeatedly.

This darkly funny and wildly unsettling book is told through the eyes of an utterly unreliable narrator. Julie is 49, deeply infatuated with 25-year-old Sean, and dangerously delusional about just how “normal” her feelings and actions are.

She insists she’s not a stalker, not unhinged, and certainly not a serial killer. But her behaviour suggests otherwise, especially when other women enter the picture.

What makes this story so gripping is how Jennifer Holdich manages to create a character who is both disturbingly irrational and oddly sympathetic.

Julie talks openly about feeling different, misunderstood, and disconnected from the world. There are moments when you do feel a glimmer of pity for her. That is, until she starts plotting another woman’s downfall because she dares to exist in Sean’s orbit.

The writing is sharp, witty and soaked in dark humour. Julie’s internal monologue is full of bizarre logic and twisted justification that keeps you equally entertained and horrified.

Her obsession feels like watching a slow-motion car crash – you can’t look away.

Fans of unreliable narrators, morally questionable protagonists and black comedy will be in their element with this one. Julie Tudor may not say she’s a psychopath, but you’ll have fun deciding for yourself.

A madcap, unsettling ride through obsession, loneliness and the dangerous lengths people go to for love.

Thank you to Alainna and the team at Hodder & Stoughton for running this book-tour. The book is out now and available to purchase.

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