The Library Weekly Book Recommendation - KS5/Adult - In the Seeing Hands of Others by Nat Ogle
You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a dialysis ward attempting to live in the aftermath of bringing a trial to court in which the defendant was exonerated. Here are the transcripts of the police interviews with her, and the accused, the emails and texts between them submitted for trial; his journal, his conversations on 4chan, his drama scripts, him, him, him. How will the nurse, Corina, ever get him out of her head?
This is a highly original debut novel that combines some of the investigatory pleasures of a legal drama with a provocative and literary exploration of the limits of empathy. It will win plaudits for its inventiveness while being at heart a very approachable piece of storytelling with the pleasures of suspense and family drama. Provocative, blackly funny and moving, it announces a new voice unlike any other.
You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a dialysis ward attempting to live in the aftermath of bringing a trial to court in which the defendant was exonerated. Here are the transcripts of the police interviews with her, and the accused, the emails and texts between them submitted for trial; his journal, his conversations on 4chan, his drama scripts, him, him, him. How will the nurse, Corina, ever get him out of her head?
This is a highly original debut novel that combines some of the investigatory pleasures of a legal drama with a provocative and literary exploration of the limits of empathy. It will win plaudits for its inventiveness while being at heart a very approachable piece of storytelling with the pleasures of suspense and family drama. Provocative, blackly funny and moving, it announces a new voice unlike any other.
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781788168359
Number of pages: 368
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