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Description
'Addictive' Guardian
'A febrile, urgent tale' Sunday Times
'A sizzling new thriller' New York Times
She knows your mind, she possesses your thoughts. What will she take next?
'I think I can help you…'
Beth lives by Camden Lock with her partner Sol and their daughter Fern. Life is peaceful, but Beth is troubled by increasing unease.
So she goes to therapy – with Dr Tamara Bywater. Soon their sessions become the highlight of Beth's week. But Beth is in over her head before she realises that Tamara might not be all she seems...
'A classy, compulsive tale of desire and obsession' Mail on Sunday
'An addictive, macabre fairground ride of a novel' Guardian
'This is seduction of the most insidious kind' Spectator
Product details
Published | 18 May 2021 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 384 |
ISBN | 9781408873519 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A clever, nuanced, elegantly written exploration of obsession
Saga
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Joanna Briscoe writes with elegance and passion about the clashes, misunderstandings and silences between generations
Maggie O'Farrell
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Her prose is beguilingly good
Elizabeth Day, Observer
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Dark, sexy, compelling
Sofka Zinovieff
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Briscoe weaves compelling fiction. The prose is rich, the setting evocative
Guardian
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A vivid and passionate writer. She plunges headlong into sticky themes of desire, love and hatred, uncovering the unpalatable parts of the psyche with an unflinching eye
Sunday Times