Seven Moves by Carol Anshaw

Seven Moves

Carol Anshaw

If you thought you were paranoid and that you over analyse your relationships, you've probably got nothing on Chris after her girlfriend mysteriously disappears. But then of course she is a psychologist, who cares deeply about her patients, and knows she's just as hopeless herself where love is concerned. Loveable, intriguing characters are better than the mysterious disappearance itself.

Extract
Sometimes Chris isn't sure that what's happening between her and Rosario is even really therapy. Perhaps she uses Rosario to feel freer, hipper, more colourful by association, while Rosario uses Chris as a totem of her status and class. She will come here on Tuesday afternoons to relate her problems in a modern, conventional - if dramatic - way in this atmosphere of fresh, waiting Kleenex and gallery posters and industrial carpet, the late afternoon sun sifting through the blinds, putting down soft bars of light across the room. Then, when she really needs to resolve a problem, she will go at midnight to a curandera who will roll an egg over her naked body, then crack it open into water and read the message it offers.
Parallels
  • Chicken Run by Alma Fritchley
  • Hen's Teeth by Manda Scott
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