![]() ![]() Beth's mental health and her growing detachment from her family as a result of her attraction to her psychologist, Dr Tamara Bywater who had her own issues, were expertly portrayed. With a strong plot, the author's fabulous prose really helped to draw me into the story and I could relate to the way in which relationships were examined. When Beth notices one of her friends, Aranxto, who also happens to be Fern's godfather, is texting Fern, she is curious. The suspense as to where this could be going next built gradually, along with suspicions that secrets were being kept. As Joanna Briscoe developed other characters, I got a feel for their different personalities. I immediately started to build a picture of troubled, nervous Beth, and the impulsive and rather fanciful Sol, though he initially came across as very thoughtful and caring. Beth relishes her happy home life but is receiving nuisance calls that appear to be from her estranged mother, Lizzie Penn. ![]() The story begins with Beth who is lying on a psychologist's couch then quickly moves on to the central character's home that she shares with her husband, Sol, and twelve-year-old daughter, Fern. The novel by Joanna Briscoe was an enthralling multi-generational story about grave misunderstandings, set on Camden Lock, London.īeth is a happily married, successful artist, living in the house of her dreams. ![]() ![]() I previously read a taster of The Seduction offered by NetGalley and was very much impressed by the first few chapters. ![]()
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