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Ann Gosslin

The Double

'A completely engrossing read! I found Ann's writing compelling, elegant and convincing, and the story pulled me in and totally transported me.' Katherine Webb, best-selling author of The Legacy and The DisappearanceFollowing a violent outburst at an awards ceremony, Vidor Kiraly, a prize-winning neuroscientist and Cambridge don, is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic in the Swiss Alps. When the clinic’s director, Anton Gessen, tries in vain to unearth the missing pieces of Vidor’s life, he suspects his reluctant patient is not who he appears to be. After one of the patients at the clinic goes missing, Gessen has reason to doubt Vidor’s self-proclaimed innocence. But what is he hiding, and who might be next?
347 printed pages
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
Publisher
Legend Press
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  • Venoeni Akintolashared an impression3 years ago
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    Death might be decades away.’ He paused. ‘Or next week.’ He had her attention now. ‘Terrifying isn’t it?’ He tried to soften his words with a smile. ‘It’s no wonder we’ve invented all kinds of defences and distractions to avoid this one inescapable fact: that our time here on Earth is finite, and none of us gets out alive.’

  • b8453453735shared an impression3 years ago
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    Interesting and quick

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Quotes

  • b8453453735has quoted3 years ago
    We do not choose our parents, or the debt they’ve bequeathed us. But we can, if we choose, create something better and finer from the ash heap of the past
  • b8453453735has quoted3 years ago
    Though our lives are an accident of birth, our fate is in our hands.
  • jodielee744has quoted7 months ago
    As a medical student he’d been advised to think ‘horses not zebras’, upon hearing the gallop of hooves.

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