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The Other Side of You
by: Salley Vickers

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007165452
ISBN: 0007165455
Label: HarperPerennial
Manufacturer: HarperPerennial
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 05, 2007
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Studio: HarperPerennial
Sales Rank: 3931

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- A modern classic
What a beautifully written insightful story. A female author who clearly has a 'masculine' side to write as a man. She intertwined the characters, their lives and personalities with skill and feeling. I loved the way she understates detail acknowledging the readers intelligence. Brilliant. It was even better than Miss Garnet's Angels. i immediately went out and bought all her other novels.

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- Therapist and patient help each other
David McBride, a psychotherapist, has a patient, Elizabeth Cruikshank who had attempted suicide. The story of Elizabeth triggers long-suppressed thoughts about and bleak insights into problems in his own life. As a result he responds to his patient's story with particular intensity and not with the detachment that therapists are supposed to show. Patients often want sessions to continue beyond the consultation hour, but here David wants it also and one session, for example, lasts for seven hours, well into the night. And although long silences in the early stages of the treatment are convincing, in the late stages I found Elizabeth's account of conversations she had had with her lover Thomas too literary, too artistically crafted: people ... Read More:

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- An utterly engrossing book
This tale is told from two perspectives: Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist, and his patient, Elizabeth Cruikshank, a failed suicide. Essentially it is a story about their relationship and how, over time, trust grows between them. But The Other Side of You also tackles some bigger, yet more subtle, themes, including how the decisions we make impact on the rest of our lives and how we never really know the people we are closest to.

During one of his sessions with the normally reticent Elizabeth, David confesses that "there's no cure for being alive" and that the only thing to do is to "find a way to live". Having lost a sibling as a child, this is exactly how David has lived his life, keeping the pain buried deep within but sometimes ... Read More:

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- Bucks a modern trend
As with several of the reviewers on Amazon, I had not read Salley Vickers before but was encouraged to by a bookseller who tells me her latest, 'Where Three Roads Meet', is also fascinating. He sold me 'Miss Garnett' and this one through sheer enthusiasm (I gather she's a favourite with the independent booksellers to whom she attributes Miss Garnett's success). No need to recap the plot as it has been well done here already so I'll just add my thought that this is a writer who bucks a modern trend. Her work takes time to absorb but is nourishing both to the mind and heart. An intellectually rigorous writer with soul is a rarity. As Phillip Pullman puts it 'she's a presence to be cherished'. I liked 'Miss Garnett', which I gather was the book which ... Read More:

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- A book that has grown on me since I finished it!
Although this book has been applauded by many reviewers, I found it a bit slow and ultimately not very rewarding. Strangely though, I have upgraded my rating from 3 to 4 stars since reviewing it!

David McBryde, a psychiatrist specialising in suicide cases, is assigned to Elizabeth Cruikshank, a young, married patient. It takes him a while to gain her trust, eventually breaking the ice through a mutual respect for the artist Caravaggio.
Meanwhile some of the background leading to David's choice of career is revealed, including the death of a close brother when he was just 4 years old, the brother 6.
Once Elizabeth decides to trust the doctor, she relates the traumatic history of love and loss that had lead up to the decision ... Read More:

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