What I really liked about this book by Sophie Hannah is that though the lead character Beth sees something completely impossible, she’s conscious of its improbability and considers alternatives despite being sure she’s not mistaken. And of course, given my logic-loving ways…. I also liked that Hannah steers clear of the fantastic and (eventually) the inexplicable as we unpick the mystery.Sophie Hannah, writer of mystery novels, has a prolific output of books and is fast becoming one of this country’s most popular writers. She produces a steady flow of novels whose plots are puzzling and enigmatic and test the reader’s ingenuity to the extreme when working out the clues and pointers of the plot.
Her latest one is Haven’t They Grown, a riveting tale of two friends who fall out, but twelve years later Beth sees Flora again and the shock is profound. Flora looks and sounds the same, and is easily recognised as her twelve years older self, but her two children still look exactly the same as they did twelve years ago, and not a day older. Thomas and Emily still look five and three, when they should be 17 and 15, and are even wearing clothes that Beth remembers seeing them wear years ago.
Her latest one is Haven’t They Grown, a riveting tale of two friends who fall out, but twelve years later Beth sees Flora again and the shock is profound. Flora looks and sounds the same, and is easily recognised as her twelve years older self, but her two children still look exactly the same as they did twelve years ago, and not a day older. Thomas and Emily still look five and three, when they should be 17 and 15, and are even wearing clothes that Beth remembers seeing them wear years ago.