At the time of writing this blog post, the book is not available on Amazon.com
My review -
School
best friends Sophie and Francesca (Frankie) managed to catch up again for the
summer after they graduated, almost twenty years ago. Over that intense summer
they each went through emotional turmoil. Just before they both left for jobs
in London, Sophie fell to her death from the remains of their seedy hometown's
derelict pier. Now Frankie, a successful businesswoman, is called back to
Oldcliffe-on-Sea by Sophie's brother. Human remains have been washed up nearby
and he wants Frankie to help him identify them. He has never believed his
sister's death was an accident.
I
enjoyed this book immensely. It's told in the present by Frankie and in the
past through Sophie's diary. The two are well distinguished in style, Frankie
being dramatic, filled with simile, tending towards paranoia while Sophie's diary
is more youthfully breathless though often dark in content. What I particularly
loved was the clever way the author gradually altered my perception of the world
they'd both inhabited twenty years ago. An excellent and unusual story.
Thanks
to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance review copy of this book.
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