Book Review

Therapy

By Sebastian Fitzek

Published by Pan

Josy, a twelve year old girl with an inexplicable illness, vanishes without a trace from her doctor’s office during treatment.

Four years later: Josy’s feather, well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn to an isolated North Sea island in order to deal with the tragedy.

He is paid a surprise visit by a beautiful stranger, a novelist who suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: all the characters she creates for her books become real to her. And in her last novel she has written about a young girl with an unknown illness who has vanished without a trace.

Is the inconceivable possible? Do Anna’s delusions describe Josy’s last days? Reluctantly Viktor agrees to take on Anna’s therapy in a last attempt to uncover the horrible truth behind his daughter’s disappearance.

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Translator: Sally-Ann Spencer