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Missing

By: Ruth Skilbeck

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Hardcover | 31 January 2017

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Imagine if you forgot yourself, disappeared, and created a new self and life in a place where you are a stranger-- how long would it be until the past caught up with you? The mysterious art dealer, the Countess Rivers, is in jail for the traumatic murder she cannot remember. As she paints and writes, readers are taken on her last art-collecting trip, that did not go according to-plan. From the art world in London to a community of mind-altering artists in Australian rainforest and cities, a lost object of desire returns with unforeseen consequences. Fugue techniques orchestrate the choir singing in this polyphonic psychological thriller told through the conflicting sexual-emotional perspectives of academic philosopher Sir Hugo Rivers, who is researching sexuality, and Ruby, his younger wife. What is the significance of the violinist and the music haunting her? Ruth Skilbeck is the author of The Writer's Fugue (PostMistress Press). "A richer account of the recursive aspects of post-traumatic writing than I have found anywhere in the literature...a worthy accomplishment." Don Kuiken, Professor of Psychology, University of Alberta, on The Writer's Fugue.

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Forget Houellebecq, I like Skilbeck. This is of course in relation to the French author. I had read all his books, and the new one Submission came to us about the same time as Ruth Skilbeck's Missing. I was compelled to read Missing. It is female-centric for one. I did love many of Houellebecq's books but when I started reading Skilbeck's Missing and then his new one, I could not read his - Karen Kennedy, author of Deeply Felt, Reflections on Religion and Violence within the Anarchist Turn

Really enjoyed it. I liked the way the characters develop, and the pace of the writing. I find the psychology exciting and in many instances I revisit something that I experienced myself. The dear kinky boffin! The snorting gallery owner! The end chapter with[Skilbeck's] observation on Velázquez is fabulous- Natasha Williams, artist

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