The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time takes us through seven days of holiday with a family loaded with estrangements, secrets, desires and downright dysfunction. What’s not to like? Great follow-up for Haddon.
“We Want What You Have.” And who wouldn’t? Residents along well-established Pepys Road are receiving curious postcards featuring photos of their homes with this slogan across them. Who’s behind them?
After the Jack the Ripper murders cease but remain unsolved, Scotland Yard creates “The Murder Squad.” Now, not only is someone picking off members of the squad, but other grisly murders and a young chimney climber’s death is putting the squad to the test. One detective, one constable and one innovative coroner are closing in…
Kathleen is an archivist whose current chorus is “all these young girls in trouble” (or words to that effect), past and present and trying to prevent worse in the future. The troubles are cyberbullying, heroin, and being a young “Bridget,” a 1920’s Irish maid.
Mark and Chloe are just-about-recovered from losing their young son in a falling-down-the-stairs accident. Though their marriage did not survive, they did and he is about to propose to Allie while she is content with restauranteur Steve. Then Connie and her young son move into their former home & complications and questions ensue.
From the summer she is nine ’til the summer she is 16, Beth Lowe, then calling herself (and being called) Erszi, for Erzsebet, the Hungarian Elizabeth (Beth), travels from England to Hungary to live with Marika… after Marika left Erszi and her father she no longer calls her “Mum.” This book is armchair travel of Hungary,…
It’s not Alice Kite, who could be any woman or everywoman, but Alys Kyte, wife of famed author Laurence who dies after an auto collision in lowly-copy-editor Frances’ presence (also the word “manipulative,” with “insinuate.”)
“Chilling.” That’s the first word that comes to mind upon finishing this tale of manipulative (to say the least) wife, Amy Dunne, who has– during her growing-up years– been the protagonist, Amazing Amy-who-can-do-no-wrong, of her parents’ children’s book empire. What has Amazing Amy done this time?
So. What is the unfinished work referred to in the title? The diary, by definition ever-unfinished, given to Kate after the sudden early death of her friend Elizabeth (D.)? Elizabeth’s work of raising her three children– the youngest only 13 months old when she died? Or Elizabeth’s work on herself? Or maybe it refers to…
Shelter first, that’s what Maggie’s father taught her, beginning with building bough-based lean-to structures in the Canada woods. Her beloved father dies when she is 10 and shortly thereafter her mother leaves, never to return. Maggie and older sister Jenny spend years moving, or being moved, from “shelter” to “shelter” until they can create a permanent one…