I really liked the part reading Verity when it was from Veritiy’s perspective. I liked the obsession and passion Verity had for Jeremy. I’m looking for something like that. I’m looking for a book that contains a character who’s extremely obsessed with someone, includes love, being crazy about someone (not in a typical cute romantic way), it can be deeper and darker. She doesn’t have to be a stalker, it can be about a couple (like Jeremy and Verity). Thank you for your recommendations🫶🏻
by zpetra
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The woman in the window
The girl on the train
If I recall, I read a book called I never promised you a rose garden that was written in the 60/70s. It’s vaguely autobiographical I think. She was being treated for “delusions” (which we would call schizophrenia now)
I remember the prose being beautiful and tragic and it greatly changed how I view other people’s inner worlds. It also helped me cope and understand when my nephew was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
*Misery* by Stephen King
The pocket wife
She goes off her meds to solve a mystery, oddly one of the best portrayals of mental illness and very relatable
Still Alice
Describes creeping dementia
Gone Girl!
What Lies Between Us- John Marrs
All the Little Lights- Jamie McGuire**
Layla- Colleen Hoover (not 100% within the guidelines you’re looking for but it leaves you almost discombobulated in a good way)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It’s a short story but fits the bill and is really well written.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse (and it has 3 sequels). Dark and witty.
Atlas Shrugged.
My Husband by Maud Ventura
White Ivy by Susie Yang
The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe