Reconstructionist - Hardcover

Hart, Josephie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754047040 ISBN 13: 9780754047049

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 2002

Synopsis

Coolly and compellingly narrated by a man dedicated to the examination of other people's pasts and the reconstruction of their lives, this is a brilliant, dark and gripping new novel that surpasses even Hart's masterpiece, Damage. A psychiatrist, Jack is divorced and has lost his wife to a more uxorious man. His own past and that of his beautiful, enigmatic sister Kate certainly bear scrutiny. But until he gets a phone call telling him that their family house in Ireland is for sale, he has absorbed himself in the problems of others, delving into their minds while himself remaining on the surface. He has successfully suppressed the anguish of his past, but the present threatens to unravel around him. When he finally returns to the house in Ireland, terrible truths emerge about what happened there years ago in a family tragedy that left indelible marks on those who survived it. The facts have been reconstructed many times, but the shocking truth has not. This is a remarkable novel of startling psychological insight and power, about the reckless quality of exclusive love, about the damage that families do - and try, sometimes dangerously, to undo - and about the way we build our lives from fragments of memory, half-truth, compromise, and desire.

About this title

About the Author:

Josephine Hart is the acclaimed author of novels which include the bestselling Damage, made into a major film, and Sin, which will be filmed in 2001 by Metropolis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0754047040
• ISBN 13: 9780754047049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 259