The Patient : A Novel by Jane Shemilt (2022, Trade Paperback)

Description: "A shocking and twisty novel about a boundary-breaking love affair, by the Edgar-Nominated, #1 International bestseller author of The Daughter." Rachel is a respected doctor who lives in a picturesque English village with her husband, Nathan, a teacher. On the cusp of fifty, Rachel has her life firmly under control, even if some of its early luster has worn off. But one day a new patient arrives for emergency treatment. Luc is a French painter who's jus bought the a historic home on the edge of their posh neighborhood. He's struggling with a mental disorder, and so he goes to the nearest clinic... to Rachel. Their attraction is instant, and as Rachel's sense of ethics wars with a newly awakened passion, the affairs blinds her to everything else happening around her. A longtime patient keeps turning up unexpectedly wherever she goes. Her adult daughter is growing more estranged. Nathan seems sour and cold as well- or is that merely Rachel's conscience weighing on her? But when one of her colleagues is murdered, everything Rachel didn't know abutter life explodes into the open- followed by a scandal that will have consequences no one could have predicted.

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