num_pages: 256
description: 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 about the headlong pursuit of knowledgefor the purposes of pleasure revelation money sanity or survivaland the consequences of fleeing from what we know about others and ourselves. When Olivia meets a new lover just as she is welcoming her best friend Lucy back from New York her dedicated academic life expands precipitously. Her connection to Francis a committed naturalist living off the grid is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy Olivia introduces the twobut Lucy has received shocking news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow Lucys boss Hunter Olivias 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 Edward St. Aubyn's Double Blind investigates themes of inheritance determinism freedom consciousness and the stories we tell about ourselves. St. Aubyn's major new novel is as compelling about ecology psychoanalysis genetics and neuroscience as it is about love fear and courage. 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.
language: English
title: Double Blind
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux