Occasional citations from Tennyson, Aristotle and others intensify the carefully built sense of tension in Alex Michaelides's new book. And so Mariana must return, with some trepidation, to the place where she and Sebastian met and fell hopelessly in love. The body of Tara, a friend of Zoe’s at the University of Cambridge, is found slashed to ribbons in the woods.
In the middle of her own grief and crisis, she also has others to think about: her clients, including the highly volatile Henry, and her orphaned niece, Zoe. Despite her best efforts, she cannot bring herself to discard his possessions. Her impossibly perfect partner, Sebastian, has drowned off the coast of Naxos, and he and his death occupy almost all of her thoughts. Of course, as one character points out, a psychotherapist is, etymologically speaking, a “healer of souls,” and it is Mariana’s soul that is in need of repair first of all.
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