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White Ink with Anna Wharton

The Imposter - Chapter Four

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Anna Wharton
Aug 15, 2025
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In 2021, my novel, The Imposter, was published by Pan Macmillan in the UK. I hated the original cover, I still do, but apparently the people in sales liked it so…

But I’ve decided to give it a new cover for Substack with the help of this 1909 painting by Edward Hopper entitled Summer Interior. It hangs in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and I went to see it last year.

Apparently, weird girl fiction is in fashion and my novel is about a weird girl. I don’t really talk about my novel, my friends call it my dirty little secret, I think it’s because I found the whole process to publication so thoroughly depressing. It took me five years to write this book, on and off as I wrote books for other people, and I don’t want it to have been for nothing because it’s not a bad little story.

If you would like to order the book and read it yourself, you can do so here (this is an affiliate link so if you do I may earn a little commission). But I plan to read it to my paid subscribers her…

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