Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalysis practice. But the darker recesses of his own psyche would not stand up to close examination: his brother Richard, a genius professor of mathematical linguistics, was apparently killed by rent boys in Los Angeles and Jay was the first on the scene.Author, Dana Flynn is determined to scratch beneath the surface while researching a biography she intends to write about Richard, and finds that Jay's professional life is as precarious as his personal relationships - he uses his clients' case studies as material for his fiction writing.Such is Jay's hunger for recognition as a creative force that he exploits the vulnerables he counsels, and a decision not to intervene when a troubled patient steals a baby, causes his past to unravel.
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"'This gripping psychological drama hooks the reader into a compelling labyrinth of sibling rivalry and stealthy passion. It is an intellectual novel of ideas written with real verve and style' Patricia Duncker"
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Aifric Campbell was born in Ireland in the 1960s. Her greyhound won the Irish Derby when she was 15. Her previous jobs have included working as an investment banker, and lecturing on logic. She has studied semantics, psychotherapy and creative writing, most recently at UEA.
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Supposedly a fictionalized account of the unsolved murder of the UCLA semanticist Richard Montague, it has nothing to say about semantics and gets the character and traits of the subject all wrong. (I knew him.) The conjectured details of the crime are worse than unlikely, they are impossible. Nor is it even a good read.
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