|
In The
Book of You, author Claire Kendal places her heroine,
a university administrator, in a situation where she has to
serve on a jury, which provides her with a little distance
from a colleague who has a fixation on her.
Clarissa
spent an ill-advised evening with the man and now he is hounding
her at work and at home. Her unwanted admirer's e-mails and
gifts are both an embarrassment and irritation that the woman
wants to stop.
Although
the sanctuary of the courtroom provides a much needed respite
from her unwanted admirer's attention, the trial is one that
deals with a sexual predator and his prey, which is a bit
too "close to home" for Clarissa.
As the
case moves forward, Clarissa sets down her own problem in
a notebook, hoping that this will assist her in freeing herself
from the ever-tightening net of terror that is closing in
on her.
The antagonist's
abuse chronicled in this novel is as much psychological as
it is physical, which makes for a frightening situation and
one that the reader won't soon forget. An obsession of this
nature is all too realistic and certainly frightening if one
must deal with a person who won't "go away" or "leave
me alone" when told to do so.
|
