There is a lot to like about this novel. Firstly the plot, a whodunnit with an enigmatic victim. Then there is the characterisation. Some to dislike but these feel like real people described warts and all.
The narrator is well developed, suffering from feelings of social insecurity. She has a business just beginning and something of an inferiority complex. The harking back to her Oxford education and glittering social circle seems to do little for her self esteem.
Perhaps the most intruiging character is Severine. Beautiful and graceful, she enters the psyche of the narrator with a regularity which bodes ill.
This is an enjoyable yarn. Who should we trust and believe? We as readers are challenged.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
The narrator is well developed, suffering from feelings of social insecurity. She has a business just beginning and something of an inferiority complex. The harking back to her Oxford education and glittering social circle seems to do little for her self esteem.
Perhaps the most intruiging character is Severine. Beautiful and graceful, she enters the psyche of the narrator with a regularity which bodes ill.
This is an enjoyable yarn. Who should we trust and believe? We as readers are challenged.
Thoroughly enjoyable.