[A] a powerful tale of guilt and betrayal…Tell Her Everything…is about a doctor who betrays the
principle of empathy. But it is through the empathic act of writing – of putting pen to paper
and reckoning with those who have suffered at his hands – that he succeeds in recovering his
humanity and coming back from his own living death…plotted with great care.” —The Guardian Tell
Her Everything is a layered recital of intricately woven hauntings decisions and
confessions...[A] story that is at once haunting tender and gripping. — Chicago Review of
Books A doctor working in a prosperous Middle Eastern city finds himself placed in an
unconscionable situation ... As he prepares for a visit from his long-estranged daughter Dr K.
a retired surgeon enjoying the comforts of retirement in London rehearses the conversation he
will finally have with her. It’s been years since he has seen her and he has spent much of
that time polishing the confession he wants to make to her. But as her visit draws closer he
finds his memories to be freshly torturous. He recalls leaving his childhood home in India to
accept a dream job working for a state hospital in a prosperous oil monarchy. Suddenly he'd
had access to a lifestyle that he would never have had back home. Money and success came
quickly . . . as long as he performed certain tasks for the state. The price for that proved
steep and often unbearable especially to a wife and daughter who watch him walk the perilous
path of lifelong ambition. Tell Her Everything is a tense visceral and moving novel about a
father's love for his daughter and about a medical professional grappling with remorse shame
and despair. Recalling the work of Ishiguro Coetzee and Kafka it asks: Where does one draw
the line between empathy and sacrifice? Between integrity and survival? Between prosperity and
love?
