Pictures of Him
- Judith D Collins
- Aug 24
- 2 min read
Narrators: Nathalie Buscombe, Max Dowler Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN: 978-1668210512
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 09/30/2025
Format: Paperback
My Rating: TBR
From the author of Broken Country, a dark and suspenseful thriller about the consequences of one woman’s doomed love affair which, years later, threatens to tear her seemingly-perfectly world apart.
Catherine lives an enviably normal life with her loving husband, Sam, and their two children. But many parts of her past are shrouded in mystery…and that’s the way she likes it. Keeping the past buried keeps her safe. When a former flame resurfaces, something inside of Catherine gives way, releasing a flood of trauma she had thought was buried long ago.
Lying in the hospital after a complete breakdown, language eludes Catherine. The shock of her painful past has left her mute, unable to explain to Sam or her children the root of her anguish. As Catherine’s fragmented memories of her university days sharpen, the threads of her past and present start to coalesce. Catherine is transported back in time to her love affair with Lucian, a charismatic and complicated artist, with whom she shared a passion that was destined to end in tragedy.
Fifteen years after the fateful end of their romance, Catherine must finally confront the events that brought her to crisis, while the fragile pieces of her life, so delicately balanced, begin to shift—and threaten to shatter.
Praise
"Dark, addictive and ultimately heart-breaking/"
—RUTH HOGAN, author of The Keeper of Lost Things
"Taut and sophisticated, not a word wasted. I loved this book."
—FRANCESCA JAKOBI, author of Bitter
"Elegant and pacey. Brideshead recalibrated by way of Big Little Lies."
—LEX COULTON, author of Falling Short
About the Author
Photo Credit: Oli Green
After many years living and working in London as a journalist and writing Pictures of Him and Days You Were Mine, Clare, her husband and three children moved to an old farmhouse in Dorset. The house, the ancient fields surrounding it and the farmers who have a deep connection to the land inspired the setting for Broken Country. WEBSITE
