Black Mamba is a riveting book that - once you start reading - is hard to put down, with the question of whether the title creature is real or imagined keeping the reader guessing until the novel's conclusion.
It deals with themes such as loss - not least that of Pippa as a wife, mother, sister and daughter after an "accident" nine months before the events in this particular story - as well as twinship and the power of recurring dreams (and how these impact on the way characters behave).
I also thought the way the story was written - with the first person point of view switching (sometimes in the same chapter) between Alfie and Julia, whose unspoken romance provides an ongoing subplot - was reminiscent of a pair of talking heads reliving their experiences in a documentary, so this could be the sort of book which works well as a film or TV adaptation.
It deals with themes such as loss - not least that of Pippa as a wife, mother, sister and daughter after an "accident" nine months before the events in this particular story - as well as twinship and the power of recurring dreams (and how these impact on the way characters behave).
I also thought the way the story was written - with the first person point of view switching (sometimes in the same chapter) between Alfie and Julia, whose unspoken romance provides an ongoing subplot - was reminiscent of a pair of talking heads reliving their experiences in a documentary, so this could be the sort of book which works well as a film or TV adaptation.