Too Close

by Natalie Daniels

Overview

NOW AN AMC+ ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING EMILY WATSON

A haunting, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller about a woman who has been institutionalized for a heinous crime, and the psychiatrist assigned to her case who must uncover the truth beneath the madness.

How close do you get before it’s too late…?

Working as a dedicated forensic psychiatrist for many years, Emma is not shocked so easily. Then she is assigned to work with Connie, a wife and mother accused of a despicable crime. Connie is suffering from dissociative amnesia—or at least seems to be.

Now it is up to Emma to decide whether Connie can stand trial for her sins. But there is something about Connie that inexorably pulls Emma into her orbit. Perhaps it is the way she seems to see right through Emma, speaking to Emma’s deepest insecurities about her life, marriage, and her own tragic past. And soon Emma begins to understand how Connie’s complicated marriage and toxic relationship with her beautiful best friend Ness could have driven Connie to snap—or maybe, she is simply getting too close to a woman who is unforgivable…

Alternating between the two women’s points of view, before and after Connie’s breakdown, Too Close is a masterfully written page turner about the powerful—yet dangerous—closeness between women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062917492
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	07/30/2019
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	16,090
File size:	860 KB

About the Author

Natalie Daniels is the pseudonym of a London based actor and screenwriter.

Editorial Reviews

★ 05/27/2019

In the prologue of the pseudonymous Daniels’s harrowing debut, Constance Mortenson, a successful writer and happy wife and mother, meets and befriends Vanessa Jones, who has moved into her London neighborhood. Connie and Ness become fast friends and nearly inseparable, until things go horribly wrong between them. Flash forward six years. A bruised, burned, and unrecognizable Connie, who has been diagnosed with dissociative amnesia, is awaiting trial for heinous crimes that she seemingly doesn’t know she’s committed. Emma Robinson, a forensic psychiatrist, must gain Connie’s trust to determine whether the amnesia is feigned or real. Despite Emma’s reserve and professional detachment, the patient and doctor begin to bond, finding they have much in common. Emma is surprised by Connie’s warmth, charm, and wry humor, then jolted by her patient’s flashes of seething hatred and bottomless pain. Each chapter, alternatively narrated by Connie or Emma, reveals each woman’s darkest secrets and perceived sins. Daniels presents an unflinching, visceral look into the nature of love, fidelity, and betrayal. Agent: Matthew Hamilton, Aitken Alexander. (July)

Publishers Weekly

A tremendous, powerful, audacious novel—full of scathing insight; full of raw, compelling feeling.

William Boyd

A tremendous, powerful, audacious novel—full of scathing insight; full of raw, compelling feeling.” %COMM_CONTRIB%William Boyd