Read Me
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Hitchcock s Rear Window meets Messud s The Woman Upstairs in this unnerving superbly crafted novel which takes readers deep into the mind of a serial stalker and through him the lives of his unsuspecting victims. Try it yourself. Go out pick somebody and watch them. Take your phone and a notebook. Persist. What begins as a confluence of yours and another person s journeys on the train maybe or leaving a cinema gets into an entanglement. You follow feeling that it s not really following because you re going the same way then when they at last reach their office you feel the clutch of a goodbye. It s normal. But how many times do you think the person being followed has been you? Read Me is a seductive haunting novel that holds a sinister mirror up to the ways in which we observe judge and influence people. Benedictus prose commands and draws readers into the dark manipulative mind of a serial stalker as he targets women across London escalating his efforts until he settles on Frances -- a bright young professional whose career is set to take off -- whose life he proceeds to unravel from the inside out. A chilling rumination on power manipulation complicity and anonymity Read Me exposes just how vulnerable we are to the whims of others -- people we may not even know.
