Fifty Minutes

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Therapy was meant to solve her problems, not make them worse...

Twenty-year-old Dani is desperate to overcome her demons, leave her dead-end job and return to her hard-won place at university. Using her limited earnings, she decides to start seeing a psychotherapist.

Richard Goode is educated, sophisticated and worldly-everything Dani aspires to be. As he intuitively unpicks her self-loathing, Dani assumes the fantasies she's developing about him live only in her head. That is, until things take a shocking turn...

Descending into a maelstrom of twisted desire, manipulation and mistrust, the power struggle between Dani and Richard escalates until she's forced to make a decision she never would have anticipated.

Fifty Minutes is a propulsive and bold debut that marks Carla Jenkins as a vital new voice in fiction.

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Fifty Minutes is a gorgeously written novel that alternates between the places of deepest despair and hopefulness. The book's greatest strength lies in how adeptly it reveals the physical, financial, and emotion toll of eating disorder recovery and how difficult it can be to seek out help. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. * Tasha Coryell, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer *
A riveting study of power and control; FIFTY MINUTES is a brilliant debut. * Louisa Reid, author of The Poet *

Author Bio

Carla is a writer and teacher who is passionate about exploring mental health issues in her writing. During the past three years, Carla's writing has been placed in several national and international competitions. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter.