Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The New Girl | 2020 | Buy |
| The Wedding Night | 2021 | Buy |
Harriet Walker brings a journalist’s eye for social detail to her fiction. The New Girl and The Wedding Night both turn on the kind of comparison anxiety and social performance that characterizes a lot of contemporary women’s experience, but Walker handles these themes with enough specificity and humor to avoid the more generic corners of the territory. Her characters feel like people who exist in a recognizable world.
Walker is also known for her work in fashion journalism, and her writing has a strong visual and material quality, attending to clothes, spaces, and surfaces in ways that support rather than distract from the psychological content. Both novels are worth reading for readers who want women’s fiction that takes its characters’ professional and social lives as seriously as their personal ones.