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A dead body floating by a pier. An elderly woman curled up on a bed in a department store. A psychiatrist searching for her own identity. These are the pieces of the puzzle that, in John Sedgwick's masterful novel of psychological suspense, begin to come into focus when Madeline Bemis is referred to the treatment of Dr. Alice Matthews at Montrose Psychiatric Hospital.
Mrs. Bemis's treatment gradually peels back the layers of a disturbing past whose shameful secrets and hidden sorrows stem from the war years of the 1940s—and reveals an unexpected link to the floating corpse. Mrs. Bemis's awakening sparks an intimacy between the two women that goes beyond an ordinary doctor/patient relationship—but also makes it clear that Mrs. Bemis's recovery, and perhaps even her safety, depends on quickly coming to terms with her secret history.
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Meet Madeleine Bemis, dowager of one of Boston's oldest Brahmin families - gracious, distinguished, refined. Meet Alice Matthews, resident psychologist at the Montrose Psychiatric Institute - young, passionate and troubled. When Alice finds elderly Mrs Bemis curled up in despair on a bed in Filene's furniture department, she instantly wants to help. Soon, as her therapist, Alice is probing deeper than she ever expected; and her patient responds by reliving her dreams, her sorrows, and a shocking World War II era secret linked to an unsolved murder. Only the embrace of her hidden past can keep Mrs Bemis sane - and perhaps out of danger. THE EDUCATION OF MRS BEMIS is both a vibrant evocation of a bygone era and a moving contemporary portrait of the unexpected bonds between two very different women.
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John Sedgwick is the author of the novels The Dark House and The Education of Mrs. Bemis, and contributes regularly to Newsweek, GQ, and The Atlantic, among other publications. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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