The Quick

Product Description

The chilling, ghostly account of a doctor who is determined to find light in a lifeless body. Patient DL lies motionless in a small room at the end of a hospital corridor. She has suffered massive damage to her brain, & it's not clear whether she can see or hear the world around her. When Sarah Newman, the narrator of this ghostly tale, is charged with finding a spark of light in her lifeless body, she is drawn into a drama which extends far beyond the hospital walls. What accident befell DL to cause her such massive brain damage? Why does her family behave in such unsettling & perplexing ways? Why is DL's estranged husband visiting the patient after hours, in the dead of night? & what is troubling the narrator herself, who seems to carry a burden from her past? As the tension builds & the strange case of Patient DL becomes known to the outside world, Sarah Newman finds herself at the heart of a personal & an ethical dilemma. ' The Quick 'is the thrilling account of an obsession, charged throughout with a sense of the mystery of consciousness. It heralds the arrival of a major new talent.