Blog Tour: Q&A with Dr Glass author, Louise Worthington
Dr. Glass Blurb
When Dr Emma-Jane Glass’ interview on local radio is deemed to be sympathetic towards a mother’s actions to kill herself and young child, Drew Rogers hatches a plan to teach the psychologist a thing or two about being left behind as a spouse. Abducted and held captive in an empty property, Dr Glass swaps places in the psychologist’s chair.
Drew puts the motivation of his wife’s actions down to his extra-marital affairs, but then the sordid truth behind his family’s disappearance is revealed.
Hard-hitting and emotional, Dr Glass is the first novel in the Glass Minds Series from the author of Rachel's Garden, The Entrepreneur, Willow Weeps and Rosie Shadow.
Purchase Links
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-Glass-Does-psychologist-Minds-ebook/dp/B08SR3PLNL/
US - https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Glass-Does-psychologist-Minds-ebook/dp/B08SR3PLNL/
Dr. Glass Blog Tour Louise Worthington Q and A
1. The story-line is described as
‘psychologically layered’. Can you elaborate?
I’d say there are three strands. The first is, before the story starts, a wife takes her own and her son’s life. In the story, the reasons behind the murder-suicide are unravelled. I don’t want to give any spoilers away!
Secondly, the main character is Dr Emma-Jane Glass, a
clinical psychologist, who is abducted and held captive by a deranged patient
reeling from grief and depression. She develops feelings for her captor and
psychologically bonds with him.
Lastly, a patient seeks help from Dr Glass and a colleague
when her daughter dies from an asthma attack. She begins to turn a corner and
come to terms with her loss with professional help and time.
I enrolled on an online postgraduate course about four years
ago after reading a couple of books about psychological experiments. The first
one was the Stanford Prison Experiment which focused on the struggles of power
between prisoners and staff; and the next one was about David Reimer, a boy
raised as a girl.
Mental
health and wellbeing have become entrenched in our daily narrative. Young
children talk about stress and anxiety. Only around ten – fifteen years ago, it
wasn’t common idiolect. I think psychology is a fascinating topic which readers
and viewers continue to demonstrate an interest in, even when some of the
issues like self-harm and suicide are hard-hitting.
Not yet, but I am planning and researching it as we speak!
In book one, the friendship between Emma-Jane and Lucy is
introduced, and a minor character, Kat, who plays a hand in the fate of the
mother and child. escapes scot-free. At some point in the series, these
characters will return into Dr’ Glass’ world.
I love reading anything by Maggie O’Farrell, Donna Tartt and
Nicci French. I’ve just started reading Push by Ashley Audrain. As well
as literary fiction, thrillers and suspense, I read flash fiction and poetry.
It’s fantastic to be able to go to the library again after
lockdown, and browse selves in book shops and charity stores. I am an
old-fashioned reader who enjoys the feel and smell of a paperback/ hardback. We
have a couple of disused telephone boxes in the village converted to the
village library where books are exchanged. It’s a great way to try a new genre
and author.
Rachel’s Garden and The Entrepreneur are
selling well in the UK and US. The audiobooks for them come out in June and
September this year, so along with Dr Glass, I will be busy promoting
them, keeping my website up to
date and You
Tube channel.
Other
Voices comes out in the spring 2022 and I’ve got two other novels in
draft form. This year has been a very busy one with the release of several
books!
horror novel, Rosie Shadow, book one in the Black Tongue Series.
Born in Cheshire, England, Louise studied literature at the University of Essex. As a teenager she read until the small hours, enjoying the darker worlds conjured by Stephen King and Daphne du Maurier.
When Louise isn’t reading or writing, you’ll most likely find her outside enjoying the Shropshire countryside with her husband or messing about with her daughter, and furry and feathered friends.
Website: https://louiseworthington.co.uk/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19741912.Louise_Worthington
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Louise-Worthington-105535434860475
Twitter: @louiseworthing9
Author Links
Dr. Glass is available from Amazon as an eBook and paperback. Details of Louise Worthington’s other psychological fiction can be found on her website.
Follow Louise on:
Twitter @louiseworthing9
More about Dr Glass
Dr Emma-Jane Glass is a qualified clinical psychologist with her own practice. Emma-Jane has an article published about maternal filicide (a mother murders their child or children) in an academic journal and is subsequently interviewed on local radio about her sympathetic standpoint.
Her perfect life changes when she receives hate mail.
'Your business is my business now. How many more are going to die before you stop meddling? One, two, ten, Dr Death?'
Abducted and held captive in an empty house, Dr. Glass begins to doubt her own mind.
The tables turn.
And roles reverse.
Emotions are raw. Who is in control?
Hearts and minds collide in a shocking tale of psychological suspense.
Fans
of The Silent Patient and The Last Sister will
love this hard-hitting and emotional tale.
Dr Glass is
the first novel in the Glass Minds Series from the author of Rachel's
Garden and The Entrepreneur.
‘A
diabolically gripping thriller.’ Book Sirens Reviewer.
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