![]() ![]() ![]() Not only has she devised a gut-wrenching, not to say heart-wrenching crime story, she has peopled it with realistic characters with whom the reader cannot help sharing every terrifying moment. ![]() Kate Atkinson triumphs again in all quarters. Jackson is on a train speeding towards Edinburgh – a journey that is about to be horrifically interrupted. In London, Private Eye Jackson Brodie has married again – his new wife Tessa is a museum curator and has gone off to a conference in New York. In the same city, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is worrying about the case of a young family suffering harassment from an ex-husband as well as investigating a possible (separate) case of arson. Thirty years later we are in a posh Edinburgh suburb where Dr Hunter, her husband Neil and their baby live with 16 year-old nanny Reggie (short for Regina), commuting daily from her high rise flat. Gabrielle, her two little daughters, Jessica and Joanna, and baby Joseph, are walking home along the leafy lanes one afternoon when a monstrous event occurs which only one of them survives. Summary: Funny, literary, sharp as a knife, and moving in a dark direction from the horrifying first few pages, this is a deeply gratifying read. ![]()
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