Trauma

Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2008; 'A riveting story about what makes us who we are by a truly accomplished novelist' Costa Book Awards Judges This is Patrick McGrath's biggest book since his acclaimed Asylum and will appeal to fans of Paul Auster's Leviathan and of the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham Swift A page-turning cerebral thriller, Trauma received extensive, glowing review coverage across the board

A darkly compelling story about how damaged people seek each other outAs a psychiatrist Charlie Weir has seen every kind of trauma New York has to offer. Yet he has never managed to overcome the tragic mistake, seven years earlier, that lost him his wife and his daughter, leaving him prone to corrosive loneliness and restless anger. Then into his life walks the alluring Nora Chiara, with her inescapable air of sadness and mystery, and Charlie falls for her quickly, hungrily. But he is increasingly haunted by ghastly half-memories from his childhood and as he retreats further and further into the recesses of his mind the delicate fabric of his life ruptures - with horrifying consequences.