'A fierce meditation on love, art and freedom for readers of Claire Keegan and Elizabeth Strout' Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train'Move over, Mr Ripley. I Am Agatha is a delightfully duplicitous debut ... Brilliant and wily' NPRAgatha is in love. If Alice didn't have dementia - and a daughter buried in her backyard, whose remains she refuses to leave behind - Agatha, celebrated painter and infamous recluse, would by now have brought her to live in her secluded house on a clifftop high above their little town.But Agatha, as always, has a plan and, once she has shaken off Alice's meddlesome, inheritance-chasing son, she will finally and proudly claim her happily ever after.