Damage by Josephine Hart

A successful British politician becomes consumed by a clandestine, obsessive affair with his son’s enigmatic fiancée, unraveling a web of desire, secrecy, and power. As the truth of the young woman’s traumatic past emerges, the liaison spirals into catastrophe, shattering a family, ending a career, and leaving the narrator to reckon with the irreversible cost of his transgression.

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