Consent - Leo Benedictus

Frances is bright, young and single, enjoying life and her burgeoning career in the big city.

But after attracting the attentions of a stranger, her life begins to unravel from the inside out.

A seductive novel of power and complicity, Consent shows us just how vulnerable we are to the will of others - people we may not even know . . .

Leo Benedictus is a freelance feature writer for the Guardian, and other publications. His first novel, The Afterparty, was published in 2011 by Jonathan Cape.

www.leobenedictus.co.uk

A fascinating, disturbing and original thriller.
Sophie Hannah

Enormously compelling.
Observer

Darkly addictive.
Mail on Sunday

[A] page-turner . . . Consent is thought-provoking as well as shocking.
Metro

Ingeniously nasty . . . reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov and Patricia Highsmith, Leo Benedictus's Consent is the confessions of a stalker.
Sunday Times

Creepy, obsessive, insidiously persistent: stalkers deserve a prominent place in any catalogue of contemporary evils . . . It is this unease that Leo Benedictus expertly taps in Consent, a queasily compelling thriller.
Financial Times

A darkly elegant thriller - I was enthralled.
Rene Knight, author of Disclaimer

Consent has a claustrophobic intensity that makes it a memorable and rewarding experience.
Sunday Express