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BLUE MONDAYSUMMARY
Introduction 1987:
9-year-old Rosie just finished school and needs to go back home.
Like always, she needs to wait for her little sister, Joanna, who is five years old. Joanna goes home,
trying to catch up with her big sister, but she can’t catch up.
On her way home, Rosie noticed a pockmarked man with a tin beside him.
She goes to the sweetshop, but she has to wait until Joanna comes to pay for her sweets. It has
been quite a while, and she still hasn’t arrived and is nowhere to be found. Rosie wasn't having it
and got very worried, but she thought she might have gone home by herself.
When she got home, she realized that her sister had gone missing.
She and her mother, Deborah Vine, went to the police office and had to explain the whole situation.
Deborah was questioned about her ex-husband, Richard, who is the father of Rosie and Joanna. The
father also got involved and was questioned, he thought they suspected him of hiding his daughter.
Rosie hasn’t said a word, she thinks it’s her fault.
The case got very popular, but still no respond.
3 years later they moved to a smaller house and Rosie became a teenager.
Deborah moved on, found a new husband and got pregnant.
To avoid being recognized by others, Rosie used her stepfathers name and called herself Rosalind
Teale.
The case became less and less important until nobody talked about it anymore.
Chapter 1 :
Frieda Klein is a psychotherapist who likes to go for walks at night.
So that she could be herself without someone looking or paying any attention to her.
So that she could get the mess out of her head.
She has always been drawn to this old river who leads to the Thames, that has been contaminated
and used as a dump, the river finally got built over and forgotten.
She thinks London has this one habit of keeping on demolishing buildings and building new things,
which leads to covering the past.
Chapter 2 :
Carrie’s husband, Alan, is having sleeping problems, on top of that he has been suffering from a
strange pain in his chest.
Alan has been using sleeping pills he got from Dr Foley but without any positive results.
Carrie advises him to go to a doctor, Dr Foley.
Chapter 3 :
Alan explains the strange pain he’s feeling in his chest to the doctor, he also mentioned the he has
been feeling this feeling of loneliness since he was young.
The Doctor concluded that he needs someone to talk to , a psychiatrist.
That it might be all in his head.
Alan just wanted the doctor to give him new medicine to make it go away easily, but instead he has
to go through this whole journey.
Chapter 4 :
We get to know Frieda a little better, and we know that she is very introverted and antisocial. Her
home is quite dark and enclosed. She doesn’t own a mobile to avoid incessant communications.
She liked being on her own and alone.
She is preparing herself for her next patient when she gets a call from Paz, the administrator at the
warehouse where Frieda has been working and was now on the board.
She called to ask her to come Thursday because he is meeting Jack, Frieda's therapy trainee.
We are also referring to Reuben, someone about whom we don't know anything currently.
Her last patient of the day was Joe Franklin, a very unwell looking man, he looked bruised and
heavy. When the time came for him to leave, he hadn’t said a word.
We also find out that Frieda has a lover, Sandy.
Chapter 5 :
Detective Chief Inspector Malcolm Karlsson brought a certain case to court (rechter) and wants to
, restart an inquiry (onderzoek), it was his decision.
It’s Thursday and Frieda goes to meet Jack, what Paz asked, She also meets Reuben who also is a
therapist.
We get to know Reuben a little more, his full name, Reuben McGill and he is a smoking addict.
Frieda has known him for about 15 years, and Reuben wants her to work at the workplace full time
instead of staying and working at home, in order to keep an eye on him.
Later on, she meets Jack, her trainee, who has been in love with her since the day he met her.
They went to a little messy café, a café that Frieda always goes to, to talk for a bit.
The conversation begins with Jack talking about a patient who has made him struggle.
The patient is a man who was having problems with his marriage. The man also plans to commit
adultery(overspel).
Jack doesn't know how to solve the problem and do the right thing.
He doesn't want to make the man think he can commit adultery, nor does he want to assume
anything.
Chapter 6 :
Alan Dekker is having his first therapy session with Reuben. Alan has no idea what he’s supposed to
say, Reuben suggested him to just talk.
Reuben was constantly thinking about other things, like cigarettes, and he was thinking about how
he started the clinic at the age of 31, when he was handsome and charismatic. He thought about
how much success his clinic had had and how his job had become so boring. Before Reuben knew
it, Alan noticed his therapist wasn’t even listening to his patient.
Alan got very offended about it and left.
Chapter 7 :
Alan Dekker wants to set an official complain because Reuben didn’t listen to a word he said.
Paz solved it by suggesting to go see Frieda, which she finds very annoying.
Frieda goes every Friday to Islington to visit her niece, Chloe, who is 16, to give her extra tuition in
chemistry for her GCSEs in June.
Chloe hates Chemistry.
Frieda wondered if she was hiding something, a year ago she got told by Olivia that Chloe has been
cutting herself.
She has a messy family with a father who went off with a woman not much older than his own
daughter.
While studying Chloe mentioned how her mother is trying to date which she finds insanely pathetic,
Frieda tries to come up for Olivia( the mother).
Chapter 8 :
Frieda meets Alan, she apologized in behave of Reuben, Alan complaints about how he didn’t even
remember his name which made him feel very terrible because it took a lot of courage from him to
go to the session.
Frieda is interested in assisting the man and requests that he come over three times a week to talk
about his feelings. She is aware that he has been feeling unwell and has a strange feeling in his
chest.
He's experiencing fear and has thoughts.
Chapter 9 :
We begin with a conversation between Sandy and Frieda, where Frieda mentions that London is her
favorite city.
After that, Alan is having his second session with Frieda, we finally get to know more about Alan’s
problem.
He was very assertive this time, unlike last time.
We begin with the first question: "why are you here?"
Alan believes that problems don’t get resolved by just talking about it, he thinks this therapy
session is useless.
Frieda gets this often so goes on by asking the symptoms, he answers and says that he has
suffered with the same symptoms in his early twenties, that they went away and now came back.
He mentions that he thinks that his GP (huisarts) wants to get rid of him, and so do all doctors, they
just want their patients to go away as soon as possible.
Suddenly, a weird Ukrainian man falls through the ceiling, which made a whole mess at Frieda’s
house.
The therapy session got disrupted.
Before he left, Alan told Frieda that there are a lot of things he wants to talk about and that it might
help him.
Later, Josef Morozov, the Ukrainian man who lives upstairs, came in to talk to Frieda.
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