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The Seymour Tapes - Tim Lott


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The Seymour Tapes - Tim Lott

 
Description: ISBN 0141009136 / Author: Tim Lott / Genre: Fiction / Dr Alex Seymour seems to have it all - with a solid marriage of twenty years, two ... more
The Seymour Tapes - Tim Lott ... teenage children, a new baby and an unblemished career as a London GP, his life seems perfect - but then a simple trip to the local supermarket changes things irrevocably. As he witnesses a shoplifter foiled by a combination of the owner's beady eye and the surveillance camera under the counter, Alex Seymour starts thinking about the reality and the fragility of his own seemingly perfect domestic situation, and what he does not see. With a son he suspects is stealing, a daughter whose first boyfriend may be going too far, and a wife he thinks is being unfaithful, Alex needs something to help him find out the truth and put him back in control. Enter Sherry Thomas, the mysterious Managing Director of Cyclops, a surveillance shop, and the catalyst for Alex Seymour's descent into a world ruled by cameras, tapes, lies and deceit, with devastating consequences. This is a gripping story of suspense that mirrors modern preoccupations with surveillance, tabloid voyeurism and morality.

Newest Review: ... that led up to her husband’s death — to set the record straight, she says. She has approached Lott, he surmises, because of ... more

 ... the unwavering honesty he displayed in his first book, ‘The Scent of Dried Roses’, & in a piece about the break-up of his marriage that appeared in the literary magazine ‘Granta’. The autobiographical book (an acclaimed, heartbreaking elegy to his mother, who committed suicide) & the article exist in the real world, allowing the character Lott to exist in a strange no-man’s-land between fact & fiction. Its various conceits & contrivances enable this novel to examine the nature of truth & the effe...more

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Premium Review The Seymour Tapes - Tim Lott: someone is watching you (889 words)
by - written on 29/05/07 (Very useful, 173 readings)
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Cast your mind back. Do you remember when segments of the so-called ‘Skin Tapes’ — showing, in horrific detail, Dr Alex Seymour’s violent death in Sherry Thomas’s basement flat in London — found their way onto the internet 2 years ago? The resulting media attention & public outcry intensified our awareness of just how widespread covert surveillance has become nowadays. It is all around us. We are being watched. The flames of the controversy were fanned by the existence of the notorious ‘Seymour Tapes’. During the last few weeks of his life, Dr Seymour, using cameras & microphones concealed in smoke detectors throughout his suburban house, had been ...  Read the complete review

 

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