Reseña del libro "The Other Chair (en Inglés)"
She has spent twenty years helping other people face the truth. She has become very good at avoiding her own. Clare Ashby is an experienced psychologist with a quiet consulting room in Newcastle, a full diary, a kind husband, and a life that appears reassuringly tidy. Every day, people sit in the chair opposite her and tell her the things they cannot tell anyone else. Arthur is grieving the wife whose cup of tea he still makes every morning. Marcus is a successful executive terrified that one day his body will betray him. And Grace, a young teacher exhausted by years of late-night calls from a troubled younger brother, is trying to learn that loving someone does not mean saving them. Clare knows how to help all of them. Until Grace says something that reaches into a part of Clare's own life she has kept locked away for eleven years. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the careful distance between therapist and patient begins to shift. Clare gives advice she would never take herself. Professional boundaries blur. Old memories surface. And every Thursday afternoon, without telling anyone, Clare drives to a room overlooking the North Sea and sits in the chair she has spent her whole career avoiding. Because long before she became the person other people turned to, Clare was a sister. And there is one phone call she never answered. The Other Chair is a moving, quietly powerful novel about grief, guilt, marriage, professional identity, and the uncomfortable truth that the people who help us carry our pain are carrying something too. For readers who love emotionally intelligent, character-driven fiction about ordinary lives, buried grief, second chances, and the complicated ways we learn to live with what cannot be changed.
