Consent
A novel
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3.4 • 8 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE
A sly, sensual, haunting novel about two women whose lives collide when tragedy changes them forever.
Saskia and Jenny are twins alike in appearance only: Saskia is a grad student with a single-minded focus on her studies, while Jenny is glamorous, thrill-seeking, and capricious. Still, when Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold to be with her sister. Sara and Mattie are sisters with another difficult dynamic. Mattie, who is younger, is intellectually disabled. Sara loves nothing more than fine wines, perfumes, and expensive clothing, and leaves home at the first opportunity. But when their mother dies, Sara inherits the duty of caring for her sister. She moves Mattie in with her--but it's not long until tragedy strikes. Now, both Sara and Saskia, having been caregivers for so long, find themselves on their own. Yet through a cascade of circumstances as devastating as they are unexpected, these two women will come together. Razor-sharp and profoundly moving, Consent is a thought-provoking exploration of the complexities of familial duty, and of how love can become entangled with guilt, resentment, and regret.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Sisters can share an incredible connection. But the same bond that strengthens can sometimes strangle. Sara is a fiercely independent academic who’s also the caregiver for her intellectually challenged sister, Mattie. Saskia is an ambitious grad student who rushes to her reckless twin sister Jenny’s side after a serious accident. Both sets of siblings are engulfed in their own compelling dramas until one person sets them on converging paths—a man with a creepy penchant for vulnerable women like Mattie and Jenny. Part compulsively readable thriller, part multilayered drama, this pageturner explores just how far the “responsible” sisters will go to set things right, whether Jenny or Mattie (ahem) consent to the plan or not. Darting through plot twists and thought-provoking moral questions at the same blistering pace, author Annabel Lyon lands at a shocking conclusion we were mulling over for days.
