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Paperback Published on: 04/07/2011
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Synopsis

Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, the older, married Mr. Dahl. She plots and speculates, yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Is it her imagination, or is the high-minded Mr. Dahl responding to her?

Cecilia's mother Dora wants the good life. She and her husband moved to Dartmoor so their children could run wild, free to make their own choices and mistakes. But Dora discovers that there is more to the countryside idyll, and indeed to her own marriage, than she assumed, when she finds herself fascinated by the very last, the very worst person she could fall for: the elegant and dangerous Elisabeth Dahl.

Now, after twenty years, Cecilia is coming home, to face Dora, and to face her past. But the excitement and pain she had thought were buried cannot be buried. The past is a dangerous place.

You, the unnerving and exceptional new novel from Joanna Briscoe, is a stunning story of sex, memory and family lies.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9780747598992
  • Number of pages: 368
  • Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 27 mm
  • Weight: 552g

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Carlag
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A gripping summer afternoon read
Joanna Briscoe writes with shocking but quite beautiful reality about family relations; the secrets, misunderstandings, unspoken personal guilt that drive ... READ MORE
YellyWelly
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Disappointing and predictable
The author has a gift for description that makes you feel like you are living in a place and totally experiencing that place. I felt that I was on the moor... READ MORE
angel316
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Spellbinding!
Joanna Briscoe's "You" begins on a wild moor which is haunted by a spectre from the past - this astmospheric setting put the reader in mond of "Wuthering H... READ MORE
Mesmerising
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This is a wonderful book!
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive” Unthinkable relationships Obsessive loves Teacher and student Parent and child Repercu... READ MORE
Sally R
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Frustrating but interestingish
The beginning of the book presented a hurdle, I automatically found myself skimming through the imagery of the countryside in an attempt to look for someth... READ MORE
Naomi
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Disappointing Summer Read
'You' begins by jumping between two different times chapter by chapter; the main dramatic events are set in the past, and the fall-out from those events in... READ MORE
Maddie Wilding
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Dark and emotional
This is a book about love. It explores love in its many forms: romantic, lustful, obsessive, familial. Cecilia and Dora, the main two characters in the nov... READ MORE
Angela Cottrell
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Is that it?
It took me a while to get into the story. I'm not sure if this was down to the book or myself. The first half of the book is set in a dual time frame which... READ MORE
Wyres
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This book had a degree of intrigue and the movement between the past and present really helped to show the intertwining of the characters. However, it did ... READ MORE
Ali Gregory
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Quite good
A believable story of teenage obsession and lust, but I found the story somewhat predictable and the ending was disappointing, leaving too many loose ends ... READ MORE
kendrafortune
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Not a bad read, but not a great one either
This is the story of Cecilia, a woman who has moved back to her family home in a rural part of Devon with her partner and three daughters. It's also the st... READ MORE
Nicola
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country idyll / obsessive love
Reading this novel left me both frustrated and slightly annoyed in that the world inhabited by the characters in this story is one where obsessions rule. B... READ MORE
bertj