INVISIBLE THREADS

Book ID/图书代码： 08162517C00001

English Summary/英文概要： Sara, a therapist, always thought her husband Mike died in Afghanistan - but when she learns he was actually killed in India, her desire to uncover the truth leads her to a clinic in New Delhi. Once in India Sara is dazzled by the country’s culture and its people. At the clinic, she grows close both to her patient Pritti and a bewitching, low-caste driver named Hemant. Yet Sara finds herself increasingly appalled at the treatment of women; in this country of old traditions and new opportunities, so much remains shocking or forbidden, like the practice of ’Devadasi’ - prostitutes who work at temples. As Sara inches towards the truth about Mike’s death and their marriage, and becomes entangled in the dark side of Delhi, she is thrust into the terrifying reality of an India few Westerners ever see.

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Awards/获奖情况：’On the surface, Invisible Threads is a novel about an English woman on a personal journey to India, and comes with many of the trappings we’d expect ... The deeper issue of Invisible Threads is the terrible position of girls and women in India, and Beresford skilfully weaves visceral examples of their plight into Sara’s experience while she is there investigating her husband’s death ... The book’s great strength is the plurality of the title’s Invisible Threads. These allude to the marital bond that pulls Sara along in her quest to discover how her husband died, and also to her links with the abused women of India she tries to help on the way. Beresford’s novel is both enjoyable and eye-opening, alluring and appalling; it is a call to respect the ties that bind us all’ --Spectator

’Beresford tells a taut, complex story, no less compelling for its compassion. Readers looking for a well-written psychological thriller could turn to Invisible Threads and not be disappointed, but this is a much more ambitious novel than that. Invisible Threads is du Maurier-esque at best; Beresford rarely sets a foot wrong’ --Literary Review

’Deeper than all the Eat, Pray, Loves… a strong Dickensian social conscience.’ --Waterstones, Best of Fiction

About the Author/作者介绍： Lucy Beresford is a writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist. She is the acclaimed Agony Aunt for the women’s glossy Healthy, after five years at Psychologies, and is the Radio Shrink for BBC Radio London. She writes about food, sex, celebrity, literature, travel, restaurants, relationships and social media for the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Independent, Spectator, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Woman’s Weekly and The Times, as well as the Calcutta Telegraph and Straits Times in Asia. She is the author of Happy Relationships: At Home, Work & Play and the novel, Something I’m Not.

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