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Blindsight: Maurice Gee

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Synopsis:

'Father taught us how not to love . . .'

So begins Maurice Gee's latest novel of 'Wellington noir' (The Times). Narrated by Alice Ferry, a retired scientist looking back over the mistakes of her family's past, Blindsight is a coruscating look at the wrongs we are capable of inflicting upon each other.

At the heart of the story lies the strange relationship between Alice and her brother, Gordon, the mystery behind their estrangement, and the entrance into Alice's life of Adrian, the nephew she never knew existed. Telling the story solely from Alice's point of view, Gee masterfully constructs a tale of unreliability, as he traces these troubled lives over a period of forty years and only gradually reveals the dark family truths.

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Secrets