Awards
Costa Novel Award
2009 Shortlist
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
Judges: "A riveting story about what makes us who we are by a truly accomplished novelist."
Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people's demons for a living. He has seen every kind of trauma during his years as a psychiatrist in New York City, and yet hasn't found a way to resolve the conflicts within his own family. And he has never overcome the terrible blunder seven years before which lost him his wife and daughter, leaving him prone to corrosive loneliness and restless anger. When Walt introduces Charlie to Nora Chiara, they fall for each other quickly but their bliss is short-lived. Her vulnerability, once so irresistible, begins to sour their life together. As he probes at the source of her distress, a half-memory from deep in his own unconscious mind begins to arouse a horrifying suspicion...
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