The title of this book has this week more significance than I realised when I read it a week or so ago. Sadly this this week has had a complete lack of time for anything other than work and sleep, and a friend of Mr C's was tragically and suddenly taken away from him and his friends with no time for any of them to stay goodbye. Life can be incredibly cruel sometimes.
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Linwood Barclay's book tells the story of Cynthia who twenty-five years ago woke up one morning (with a teenage hangover) to find a silent house and no sign of her parents or brother. Even after all this time there is no further understanding of what happened that night. The story does start to unravel though, but possibly not how people expect…
The problem that I had with this book though was that I did actually expect the ending; from about halfway through. Not sure why, but by the last few pages I was just waiting for them to confirm what I already knew.
A shame really as I actually thought the book was really well written and the characters strong with a good feeling of getting to know and understand them as the book progressed. I'm not sure that the author is to blame on this one though – maybe I'm just turning into Miss Marple???
Sorry for the blog silence once again.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ! Will have to order tgis book, sounds intriguing! The library van visits on Monday………..so will put in a request!
I am so sorry for your loss. It takes a while to absorb such shocking news but in my experience it does help you understand what are the most important things in your life.