A brilliant young woman and an older, more powerful man in a tale of slowburning obsession and retribution for fans of Patricia Highsmith and Rachel CuskThis psychological thriller examines what happens when the lines between victim and predator, loyalty and obsession become blurred Mail on SundaySpellbinding Anna FunderPrecise, cool, complex Observer Striking, stylish, compelling... Her language is perfectly measured, her imagery precise, the settings lush and tactile, gorgeously rendered Sydney Morning HeraldVita is an undergraduate when she catches the attention of Royce. She is sharply focused, slightly solitary, evidently gifted. Something in her reminds him of his own youth, of the woman he loved then and of what happened to her. So he grants her a scholarship a transaction that will bind her to him, in subtle and inescapable ways, for the rest of her life.What passes between them haunts Vita for years. She spends her life playing cat and mouse with his shadow, seeing it slip across the mountains behind her, feeling its chill at her back. So when, decades later, Royce gets in touch once again, Vita has her own reasons for responding. He still sees her as the helpless ingnue. But she is not that any more.Dovey does not shy away from bluntly confronting big questions headon... Trembling with meaning, unsettlingly alive, a literary pageturner Kirkus

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