Suspicious Minds

Liz Zahavi is in a bad place. Her partner Jay is controlling and uncertain, and she longs for him to stay and truly care for her. She has also recently been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and hopes to feel well again and, above all, to be seen by someone who understands her. A private therapy session seems like her way out, but she never reaches it. Driving along a tangle of rural lanes, she crashes her car and is pulled from the wreck by a withdrawn farmer named Jude, who then keeps turning up to help her.

Jude is magnetic and intense, and Liz finds herself wanting to stay in this new, dreamlike situation. Yet four years earlier, Jude's beautiful wife died alone in woods close to the farm. As that history starts to resurface and threatens the fragile happiness the two have found, Liz begins to question who this man really is and what he might be prepared to do.

This is a psychological thriller with a strong mystery thread, centred on a fragile narrator and a man whose motives remain unclear.