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I love laundromats - it‘s dedicated reading time!
“Anna? We‘re recording.”
The camera pans up from a long crack in the linoleum floor to rest on the hunched-over frame of a girl.
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I picked this psychological thriller from my tbr pile for an easy post Xmas read + it was a roller coaster read + starts my #booked2023 with a #twist.
Sue is a mother whose 15yr old dtr is in a coma after what appears to be an apparent suicide, when sue finds Charlotte's diary she suspects something is wrong which triggers memories of her life 20 yrs earlier.
pickTabby is dating Mark & one day they decide to climb to the highest part of a local hike called The Split. Hours later, Tabby re-emerges & reports Mark missing presumed dead. He apparently fell from the top & Tabby became lost in the woods trying to get out & call for help as her phone had died. A search soon finds Mark's body in the water below & it seems that he drowned. The rumours soon begin that maybe it wasn't an accident. (Continued)
pickThis book, published in 1980 when the author was 65, astonished me. It won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, but the book or the author are not well-known. Weinman in her afterword calls it an "interior feminist espionage novel", & because the protagonist Shirley, alias Lola, travels from city to city to meet her mysterious lover who works for an international organisation called The Agency, I thought this would be Graham Greene-esque territory.
pickThanks #NYRBBookClub for another really good read! This is definitely not a book I would have picked up on my own. While it's hard to say that this story is “enjoyable“ I did enjoy the feverish paranoid quality of the characters stories and imaginings. I started out trying to sort out what was true and what wasn't and then realized it would be better just to go with the flow. A truly unique and mesmerizing read.
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