This book was on many Best lists in the year it was published. Published two years after Room, it would be tough not to say Donoghue’s utterly excellent novel didn’t influence McCleen, as here we are with another narrator who also happens to be a damaged child with no concept of the real world she happens to live in. There though, all comparisons end. Judith’s mother died shortly after giving birth to her and she has been raised by her father alone. As devout Jehovah’s Witnesses, Judith […]
Antiques Roadshow, meet Murder She Wrote
Last year my book club read A Deadly Vintage, I think the third in the Molly Doyle Mystery series. It was fun and pretty cute. A quick read with friendly characters that was easy to jump into without having read the earlier volumes of the series. It did make me want to go back and read the previous ones though. To read more of my review, head over to my blog…
Three people tell a story. Who is telling the truth?
David has lost his memory. A news paper notice appears, asking people whether they know him and encouraging friends and acquaintances to write to him, to help him restore his memories. In this book, we get to read the letters of three of the people who write to him, as well as read about their current lives. As we read their stories and letters to David, more of his identity is revealed, but much more so, the identity of the letter writers. The letters focus […]
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