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A modern classic What a beautifully written insightful story. A female author who clearly has a 'masculine' side to write as a man. She intertwined the characters, their lives and personalities with skill and feeling. I loved the way she understates detail acknowledging the readers intelligence. Brilliant. It was even better than Miss Garnet's Angels. i immediately went out and bought all her other novels.
Therapist and patient help each other David McBride, a psychotherapist, has a patient, Elizabeth Cruikshank who had attempted suicide. The story of Elizabeth triggers long-suppressed thoughts about and bleak insights into problems in his own life. As a result he responds to his patient's story with particular intensity and not with the detachment that therapists are supposed to show. Patients often want sessions to continue beyond the consultation hour, but here David wants it also and one session, for example, lasts for seven hours, well into... more info
An utterly engrossing book This tale is told from two perspectives: Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist, and his patient, Elizabeth Cruikshank, a failed suicide. Essentially it is a story about their relationship and how, over time, trust grows between them. But The Other Side of You also tackles some bigger, yet more subtle, themes, including how the decisions we make impact on the rest of our lives and how we never really know the people we are closest to. During one of his sessions with the normally reticent Elizabeth, David... more info
Bucks a modern trend As with several of the reviewers on Amazon, I had not read Salley Vickers before but was encouraged to by a bookseller who tells me her latest, 'Where Three Roads Meet', is also fascinating. He sold me 'Miss Garnett' and this one through sheer enthusiasm (I gather she's a favourite with the independent booksellers to whom she attributes Miss Garnett's success). No need to recap the plot as it has been well done here already so I'll just add my thought that this is a writer who bucks a modern trend. Her work... more info
