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Like Lonesome Dove and The Poisonwood Bible, this big novel engrosses the reader with a fast-moving story with much incident and believable characters, all written in a smooth but unobtrusive style. HT tells the personal and professional stories of two psychologists, one English the other French. The love stories are affecting, too plausible is the adulterous affair one has with the passionate – what else? — Russian Roya. Readers looking for a novel of ideas will be happy with the primer on the early days of the scientific study of the neurology and psychology a la Charcot, Kraepelin, and Hughlings-Jackson. The kind of serious novel so absorbing that meals and phone calls and sleep become annoying delays to seeing what happens next.