Undue Influence, Priscilla Masters
Undue Influence, Priscilla Masters
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Undue Influence

Author: Priscilla Masters

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 02/01/2024

Synopsis

Nurse Florence Shaw is worried about her patient and friend, elderly widow Nora Selleck. When she encounters Nora in the market town of Stone seeming confused, Florence decides to pay her a visit in more familiar surroundings. But at Nora's house she meets Ben Evans, a mysterious young stranger who has befriended Nora. Who is Ben, and why is he encouraging Nora to miss her surgery appointments? Florence doesn't trust Ben. She's sure he doesn't have Nora's best interests at heart and is a threat to her vulnerable patient. But no one else, not even Nora's doctor, shares her concern. Until, one day, Nora suddenly disappears . . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

Edited and pictures added 10/3/2021 I really enjoy Brookner’s novels – I must, lol, since I’ve reviewed six and I’ve read a couple more. I find her novels an intriguing, slow, calming read. She’s not Henry James but she’s like him in her psychological focus and in her analysis of manners, mannerisms......more

Goodreads review by Blair

The premise of Undue Influence makes it sound like archetypal Anita Brookner. Claire Pitt is 29, single, and works in a bookshop run by two elderly spinsters. She has one good friend – Caroline, known by her nickname Wiggy – whose main preoccupation is a long-running affair with a married man. One d......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I will confess I found this novel a bit unsettling at times and increasingly bleak as it progressed. That said, the writing here is raw, precise, and unsentimental and this stylistic approach helped to capture the essence of the main character, Claire Pitt. Claire is young, attractive, and a bit of......more

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