[A] sizzling new thriller... Briscoe has a dreamy, elliptical style that reflects the dreamy, elliptical sensibilities of her characters. The Seduction examines the life of one such woman, Beth, a London artist whose psychological upheavals - over what she has lost, what she is afraid of losing, what she wants - threaten to unravel her family and destroy her sanity.

New York Times Book Review

Provocatively plumb[s] a pair of complex women ready to risk all to feel electrically alive.

Publishers Weekly

Briscoe slowly and skillfully unspools the sexual and psychological tension to the breaking point . . . Like the smooth surface of an oil painting, the novel presents a slickly beautiful vision of fantasy, layered under with ferocious, stabbing brushstrokes of pain. A haunting novel that lays bare the ugliness of narcissism at its most extreme.

Kirkus Reviews

Compelling, erotically charged . . . Delve[s] sharply into the fraught connections between mothers and daughters and the way those connections reverberate across generations. Spare but richly poetic language makes an insightful literary thriller.

Booklist

Joanna Briscoe writes with elegance and passion about the clashes, misunderstandings and silences between generations

Maggie O'Farrell

Her prose is beguilingly good

Elizabeth Day, Observer