The other side of you
By: Salley Vickers
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781405614306; 9781405614313
Subjects: Suicidal behavior; Fiction; Psychiatrists
Description: "'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child, he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event which has shaped his own personality and choice of profession. One day, a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to his hospital. She is unusually reticent and it is not until he recalls a painting by Caravaggio that she finally yields up her story." "We learn of Elizabeth Cruikshank's dereliction of trust, and the man she has lost, through David's narration. As her story unfolds, David finds his own life being touched by her account and a haunting sense that the 'other side' of his elusive patient has a strange resonance for him." "Set partly in Rome, The Other Side of You explores the power of love, and art, to invade and change our being and the difficult choices it forces us to reflect on and face."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: London: Fourth Estate.