Book info

• Title Prima Facie
• Author Suzie Miller
• Year 2018
• Genre Contemporary

Tessa Ensler is a brilliant barrister who's forged her career in criminal defence through sheer determination. Since her days at Cambridge, she’s carefully disguised her working class roots in a male-dominated world where who you know is just as important as what you know. Driven by her belief in the right to a fair trial and a taste for victory, there’s nothing Tessa loves more than the thrill of getting her clients acquitted. It seems like Tessa has it made when she is approached for a new job and nominated for the most prestigious award in her field. But when a date with a charismatic colleague goes horribly wrong, Tessa finds that the rules she’s always played by might not protect her, forcing her to question everything she's ever believed in...

Thoughts

I wanted to see this play with Jodie Comer when it toured but the tickets sold out very quickly. So I have settled for the book (written as an adaptation of the play by the same author) and gone for the audiobook read by Comer anyway. It’s surely the next best thing. It was such a good story, well written, well read, completely engaging, and of course, enraging. I like that the ending is realistic and disappointing but also somewhat hopeful, it’s really well done.

Rating: 5 / 5