5/9/2023 0 Comments Into the darkest cornerHaynes uses alternating narratives to burrow into a harrowing story: There’s the 2003 Catherine, meeting Lee, falling in love, then descending into hell and the 2007 Cathy, struggling to rebuild her life. But the real horror, she explains later, was that “nobody, not even my best friend, believed me.” Lee gets three years in prison and Catherine, now suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, moves to London to start a new life. Manipulative and controlling, he grows more and more violent until he nearly kills her. “The world doesn’t exist for him outside you.” But instead of every woman’s dream, blond, blue-eyed Lee turns out to be this woman’s nightmare. “Isn’t he just what we’ve all always wanted?” one of them asks her. When she hooks up with handsome and mysterious Lee she seems to have it all - at least her envious girlfriends think so. Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.Īs a successful young professional in the northwest of England, Catherine Bailey has a full life: a job she likes and a cabal of friends with whom she parties hard. INTO THE DARKEST CORNER By Elizabeth Haynes.
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