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The Damages

Genevieve Scott
Barcode 9780857308696
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Release Date: 25/04/2024

Genre: Fiction
Label: Verve Books
Language: English
Publisher: Verve Books

A page-turning, thought-provoking novel about the lies we tell other people and the lies we tell ourselves.

What I remember best about that week in January is trying to keep track of all the lies I told.

1998. Ontario has been hit by a days-long, life-endangering ice storm, and on Regis University campus, with classes cancelled, the students are partying. In the midst of it all, eighteen-year-old Ros's roommate Megan goes missing. As a panicked search ensues, Ros is blamed for not keeping a closer eye on Megan, and the incident casts a shadow over the next two decades of her life.

2020. Ros's former partner, Lukas, the father of her eleven-year-old son, is accused of a sexual assault. The accusation brings new details of an old story to light, forcing Ros to revisit a dark moment from her past. Ros must take a hard look not only at the father of her child, but also at her own mistakes, her own trauma, and at the supposedly liberal period she grew up in.