There are two driving narratives in this book and at least initially I wasn’t clear if they were slowly merging together or slowly diverging apart. That could be for two very different reasons, but the novel, which I listened to as opposed to read, was perfectly fine, but only perfectly fine, so I didn’t feel like going back and investigating. So the two narratives are: one, Naomi Cottle, the titular “child finder,” is beginning a new case, and we are made to realize this is […]
In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory.
The Child Finder by Rene Denfield