This was a fascinating read for me. I wasn't sure at first; the cover didn't make me believe it would be as thrilling or have as many turns as it did. It took a few readings for me to realise that this book is much more than its cover!
All of the descriptions paint a vivid image of the locations in the book. The well-kept green gardens, which are a little phoney. Houses of opulence and 'ideal' family lives.
The tension is well-paced, and the book keeps you guessing until the very last page about what happened to Joyce. The backdrop allows the themes of sexism and racism to wrap around a story that would be fantastic on its own, but with the added bonus of the distinct 50s lens, this is a book that no one will be able to put down.
Overall, this was a fantastic read—a little of an education as well as a fascinating story set in the 1950s. The long, long afternoon is essentially a classic old-fashioned whodunit, complete with enough of supplementary details to make it a very realistic read. A fantastic work of literary criminal fiction.
All of the descriptions paint a vivid image of the locations in the book. The well-kept green gardens, which are a little phoney. Houses of opulence and 'ideal' family lives.
The tension is well-paced, and the book keeps you guessing until the very last page about what happened to Joyce. The backdrop allows the themes of sexism and racism to wrap around a story that would be fantastic on its own, but with the added bonus of the distinct 50s lens, this is a book that no one will be able to put down.
Overall, this was a fantastic read—a little of an education as well as a fascinating story set in the 1950s. The long, long afternoon is essentially a classic old-fashioned whodunit, complete with enough of supplementary details to make it a very realistic read. A fantastic work of literary criminal fiction.