Share your thoughts on the Satisfaction ebook with other internet viewers!

Satisfaction

A Novel
2004

22 November
Harley Street

HE STOOD AT the window and thought how beautiful the city could be in November, and how no one ever noticed or said so. It was ten to four and the light was going, but the thin wash of blue and mauve between the small dark clouds still held its colors, and he felt satisfied, as he often did these days, at the way his life had gone.

He saw the woman approaching, walking down Harley Street, and he knew it was her, the one whose voice had caught his attention on the phone in a way that surprised him, holding as it did a curiosity that was absent from most of those who consulted him. She was pressing the bell now, on its fine brass plate: Patrick McIlhenny, MSc, Clinical Psychologist. And Analytical Psychotherapist, he added to himself, but that had seemed too overwhelming a title to post on his gate. As he waited to be notified of her arrival, he straightened a grimacing Honduran mask that rested against the bookshelves and picked up one of the smooth round stones that sat on his desk. He felt the tightening of apprehension and expectation that each new client delive ... read full excerpt from: Satisfaction ebook