psychological fiction

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The crocodile bird

1994
Story of an obsessive love between a mother and daughter and its connection to a series of deaths near a remote English manor.

Forgotten country

2012
Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother.

If you could see me now

2006
Elizabeth Egan, a woman who keeps rigid control of her life, home, interior design business, and six-year-old nephew, learns to let go of her unhappy past and rediscover the joy of childhood when she becomes acquainted with her nephew's imaginary friend, Ivan.

Travel writing

2008
An English teacher named Pete Ferry sees a car crash into a post, killing Lisa Kim, a young woman; traumatized by the event, Pete investigates the occurrence and starts to slip up in his personal and professional life while narrating the story to his class as the line between storytelling and fact blurs.

The nature of monsters

2007
In 1718, sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally becomes an apothecary's maid in order to protect the father of her unborn child from scandal, but as she learns more about her new master's work, she fears for her unborn child's life and her own fate.

Still life with elephant

a novel
2007
Neelie Sterling is sent into a tailspin when she learns her veterinarian husband is cheating on her with a colleague, and, in a last ditch effort to win him back, joins him on a mission to Zimbabwe to rescue a badly abused elephant.

Lying with strangers

2007
Peyton Shields, a first-year resident at a Boston children's hospital, is haunted by an accident that forever changed her life and the memory of the stranger who saved her from certain death.

A long way down

2006
A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.

Fledgling

a novel
2005
Fifty-three-year-old Shori wakes up in a cave amnesiac and seriously wounded, and later learns that she is a vampire genetically modified to walk in the daylight.

The portrait

2005
Celebrated portraitist Henry MacAlpine, retired from the London art scene to an island off the coast of France, accepts a commission in the early 1900s to paint his one-time friend and mentor William Nasmyth, a powerful art critic, but as the session progresses it becomes clear that MacAlpine's feelings toward his subject fall far short of gratitude.

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