From the author of the internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose
books: a major new novel exploring some of the biggest ideas and
most pressing questions of our times. 'Both moving and so funny I
had to stop every few pages to wipe tears from my eyes' OBSERVER,
BEST BOOKS OF 2021 'Emotionally cogent and intellectually
fascinating... I was gripped by it' Ian McEwan Double Blind follows
three close friends and their circle through a year of
extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes,
Big Sur and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious
novel is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics and
neuroscience as it is about love, fear and courage. When Olivia
meets a new lover, Francis, just as she is welcoming her dearest
friend Lucy back from New York, her life expands precipitously. Her
connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off-grid, is
immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia
introduces the two -- but Lucy has news of her own that binds the
trio unusually close. Over the months that follow, Lucy's boss
Hunter, Olivia's psychoanalyst parents, and a young man named
Sebastian are pulled into the friends' orbit, and not one of them
will emerge unchanged. Expansive, playful and compassionate, Double
Blind investigates themes of inheritance, determinism, freedom,
consciousness, and the stories we tell about ourselves. Most of
all, it is a perfect expression of the interconnections it sets out
to examine, and a moving evocation of an imagined world that is
deeply intelligent, often tender, curious, and very much alive.
'The experience of St Aubyn is indelible' Jonathan Franzen
'Extraordinary' Sam Mendes 'A joy' Zadie Smith 'Among the giants of
English fiction' Edmund White
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