Cargo Publishing, 2013
ISBN: 978-1908885234
London, 1920. Elliot Taverley is an ambitious young psychoanalyst specialising in the new and controversial field of handwriting analysis. When he receives a visit from a man who seems to change personality when he copies others’ handwriting, Elliot is intrigued and soon becomes obsessed with the man and his mysterious disorder. Spiralling into an increasingly bizarre cat-and-mouse chase and with his mind collapsing, Elliot is forced to confront his difficult childhood and the horrors of war in Arctic Russia in a desperate search for the truth.
Reviews:
“****An addictive thriller … deliciously dark and hypnotic, a psychological thriller fused with the spine-tingling atmosphere of a ghost story.“
(The List)
“The Fractured Man is a confident, well-crafted debut, atmospheric and full of quiet menace.”
(Eva Dolan, author of Long Way Home)
“I defy anyone to put the book down … a great example of why the psychological thriller has come to have such a hold on us.”
(Scots Whay Hae!)
 | Juliet ConlinJuliet Conlin was born in London and grew up in England and Germany. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Durham. She works as a writer and translator and lives with her husband and four children in Berlin. Juliet writes English and German. Her debut novel The Fractured Man was published by Cargo (now Freight Books) in July 2013. Her second novel, The Wondrous Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days, which chronicles the life of a man who hears voices, is due to be published by Black & White Publishing in April 2017. |