and absolutely on-point'Samantha Downing'A bold and on-point feminist thriller about gendered violence with Gone Girl twistiness and narrator unreliability'Victoria Selman'A dark
Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else
The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh
of his two best friends: Frank Slattery
who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station
Afterlife Allan Mallinson and absolutely on-point'Samantha Downing'A boldThe seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to let go of past memories, guilt and bitterness.