Sarah Jordan, beautiful and clever, is a PhD researcher at an American university. She works with spiders... When she was small, Sarah hated them. In adolescence she forced herself to conquer this basic human fear, and now she loves spiders... Discovered by a documentary production team, she is groomed as a TV personality. On the giant nylon web built in the studio she feels strangely exhilarated, thrillingly powerful. People begin to call her Spider Girl... Love and fear, courage and perversity, violence and neurosis are spun together in a sinister web. Thread by thread this realistic and convincing novel is built to a bizarre and horrifying conclusion. Spider Girl, like Peter Lear’s best-selling Goldengirl, is too close to the truth for comfort, but it is a book you will go on reading