Book Synopsis:
Beth lives by Camden Lock with her partner Sol and their daughter Fern. Life is peaceful, but Beth is troubled by increasing unease. It could be to do with her mother’s disappearance years ago. It could be her sense that Fern is keeping secrets from her.
So she goes to therapy. Dr Tamara Bywater is there to help her patients, and 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…
What if the person you trust the most turns out to be the greatest danger of all?
The Seduction is published in ebook and hardback on the 11th June 2020. You can pre-order your copy using the link below.
My Review:
The Seduction was a well written, absorbing book which was very thought provoking. I raced through it in a few days which hasn’t been happening much since lockdown started.
The story follows Beth as she tries to get help for her abandoment issues and sort out the state of her marriage. I really liked Beth and found her to be a very realistic character that I had a lot of sympathy for. As a mother myself her troubled relationship with her daughter definitely struck a chord with me and I hoped that they would be able to sort things out.
The relationship she develops with her therapist is very interesting and I enjoyed trying to work out what was going on there. Sometimes it seemed like Tamara was manipulating the entire situation and at others I was wondering whether Beth was making everything up. It was very difficult to tell and the uncertainty definitely helped add to some of the intrigue in the book as we follow their developing relationship. Tamara herself doesn’t help the matter as she’s quite difficult to read and seems quite seductive so it was impossible to try and read the situation.
Overall I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read more from this author. It does start off quite slow but soon picks up as the reader learns more about the situation Beth finds herself in. I found it fascinating to learn more about the therapist- patient relationship and a condition called transference which I hadn’t heard of before. The story manages to be quite thought provoking but also quite scary which kept me turning the pages as I wanted to find out what was happening. It was one of those books I was disappointed to finish as I had been so enjoying it.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Bloomsbury for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Joanna Briscoe is the author of five previous novels, including the bestselling Sleep With Me, which was adapted for ITV by Andrew Davies. She has been a columnist for the Independent and the Guardian, is a literary critic for the Guardian, and broadcasts regularly on Radio 4. Joanna lives in London.
joannabriscoe.com
@JoannaBriscoe
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Huge thanks for the blog tour support xx
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My pleasure thanks so much for the invite x
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