โ Scribed by James Lasdun
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An accusation of sexual assault opens an investigation into the meaning of truth in this stylish, psychologically acute thriller.
"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn't mean it didn't exist, because it did exist: fixed in its moment, unalterable, and certainly not a matter of 'belief.' "
When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault in her memoir, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly and inexorably to the brink of ruin. His reputation and livelihood at stake, Marco confides in a close friend, who finds himself caught between the obligations of friendship and an increasingly urgent desire to uncover the truth. He is drawn, magnetized, into the accuser's orbit, and the question of his own complicity becomes impossible to avoid.
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