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Always watching

Stevens, Chevy. (Author).

Summary: In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire—healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her—and learns of some troubling parallels with her own life. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group’s leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today?

Record details

  • ISBN: 0312595697
  • ISBN: 9780312595692 (hardcover) :
  • ISBN: 9781250049001 (trade pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: print
    340 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Subject: Family secrets -- Fiction
Psychiatric hospital care -- Fiction
Women psychiatrists -- Fiction
Psychic trauma -- Fiction
Genre: Canadian fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Available copies

  • 20 of 22 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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Creston Public Library FIC STE (Text) 35140001017105 Fiction Volume hold Available -

Summary: In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire—healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her—and learns of some troubling parallels with her own life. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group’s leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today?

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