Book description
Dr Alex Seymour seems to have it all - with a solid marriage of
twenty years, two teenage children, a new baby and an unblemished
career as a London GP, his life seems perfect - but then a simple trip
to the local supermarket changes things irrevocably. As he witnesses a
shoplifter foiled by a combination of the owner's beady eye and the
surveillance camera under the counter, Alex Seymour starts thinking
about the reality and the fragility of his own seemingly perfect
domestic situation, and what he does not see. With a son he suspects
is stealing, a daughter whose first boyfriend may be going too far,
and a wife he thinks is being unfaithful, Alex needs something to help
him find out the truth and put him back in control.
Enter Sherry Thomas, the mysterious Managing Director of Cyclops, a
surveillance shop, and the catalyst for Alex Seymour's descent into a
world ruled by cameras, tapes, lies and deceit, with devastating
consequences. A gripping story of suspense that mirrors modern
preoccupations with surveillance, tabloid voyeurism and morality.
Tim Lott's previous books are The Scent of Dried Roses, which won the
JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, White City Blue, which won the
Whitbread First Novel Award, Rumours of a Hurricane, which was
shortlisted for the Whitbread novel of the year, and The Love Secrets of
Don Juan. He lives in London NW10.
