Absent Therapist - Couverture souple

The pieces in The Absent Therapist often resound with truth, whether the overheard voice is that of a plumber offering to redo another tradesman s botched job ( I won t charge you no extra. I m already saving you money! ), a Londoner describing spanking in a gay club, or a businessman losing his listener s interest by spouting jargon about bridge documents, tech guys and new gen stuff. The fragments range across continents America, Africa, Australia as well as classes, and many of them are clearly situated ... Others are decontextualised, and often these are the most arresting, either for their meditative quality or through a poetic suggestiveness which reminds us that Eaves is a poet as well as a writer of prose fiction.
Alison Kelly, Times Literary Supplement

I was gripped and awed by Will Eaves s The Absent Therapist, touching, addictive and unlike any other book. --Thomas Adès, TLS 'Books of the Year'

The Absent Therapist is a miniature but infinite novel, and unlike anything I ve read before. It s just achingly good.
Luke Kennard

The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander . . . Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers: The biggest surprise of all is frequently that things and people really are as they seem.