What Readers Are Saying

"This is one helluva read. Incredibly raw and visceral" - Harriet Tyce, author of BLOOD ORANGE

"Thought-provoking and honest" - Winnie Li, author of COMPLICIT

"A page-turner" - Louise Dean, author of BECOMING STRANGERS

"I couldn''t put it down" - Tasha Coryell, author of LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER

"A riveting study of power and control..." - Louisa Reid, author of THE POET

"Keeps the reader on their toes in the best way" - Kate Riordan, author of THE HEATWAVE

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

Synopsis

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.