Name: Damage
Rating: 2.944444444444445 (9 reviews)
ISBN: 9781453200087

Josephine Hart

"To read this tale of mutual obsession is like being abducted. Josephine Hart has managed to create a portrait of psychological and erotic obsession that is so compelling as, for a brief moment, to suck all the oxygen out of the air."

Damage

Mari-Claire Parrin

sina (she/her) 

Honestly, this may be the best book I’ve ever read. I’ve never met a book that resonated so deeply and so disturbingly with me. The protagonist’s inner monologue is twisted and marvellous, containing brutally human truths. Every character is at once aloof and recognisable. Reading this feels like looking through someone else’s eyes at a world both alien and hauntingly familiar. 

Birgit G. Newton

"Hypnotic." THE BOSTON GLOBE He was a married M.P.with two grown children. On the surface, his life was what he wanted it to be. She was his son's fiancee, a shattered woman who had only known forbidden love. When they meet, their attraction is instantaneous, their obsession complete. And nothing, it seems, can tear them away from each other and their dangerous, damaging, illicit passion.... "Striking." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the Paperback edition.

A Novel

Sabrina

A successful doctor and politican arrives at middle ages and the high point of his career, having pursued a dutiful and a passionless life. His life has been a 'good performance', until as chance meeting with Anna, his son's lover. This strange and secretive woman, emotionally crippled by her past, unlocks the violent reality behind his carefully created facade, and his consuming obsession threatens everyone around them. Only as he spirals towards destruction does he understand the truth of Anna's warning - damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Damage

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