In the Seeing Hands of Others
You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a dialysis ward attempting to live in the aftermath of bringing a rape trial to court in which the defendant was exonerated. Here are the transcripts of the police interviews with her, and the accused, the emails and texts between them submitted for trial; his journal, his conversations on 4chan, his drama scripts, him, him, him. How will the nurse, Corina, ever get him out of her head?
This is a highly original debut novel that combines some of the investigatory pleasures of a legal drama with a provocative and literary exploration of the limits of empathy. It will win plaudits for its inventiveness while being at heart a very approachable piece of storytelling with the pleasures of suspense and family drama. Provocative, blackly funny and moving, it announces a new voice unlike any other.
Nat Ogle was born in 1991 and raised in Darlington, County Durham. He works as a bookseller in London. In the Seeing Hands of Others is his first novel.
Author: Nat Ogle
Format: Hardback, 368 pages, 140mm x 220mm, 480 g
Published: 2022, Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a dialysis ward attempting to live in the aftermath of bringing a rape trial to court in which the defendant was exonerated. Here are the transcripts of the police interviews with her, and the accused, the emails and texts between them submitted for trial; his journal, his conversations on 4chan, his drama scripts, him, him, him. How will the nurse, Corina, ever get him out of her head?
This is a highly original debut novel that combines some of the investigatory pleasures of a legal drama with a provocative and literary exploration of the limits of empathy. It will win plaudits for its inventiveness while being at heart a very approachable piece of storytelling with the pleasures of suspense and family drama. Provocative, blackly funny and moving, it announces a new voice unlike any other.
Nat Ogle was born in 1991 and raised in Darlington, County Durham. He works as a bookseller in London. In the Seeing Hands of Others is his first novel.