The narrative is split between two narrators. After such a run, I was not to be put on my guard by glowing reviews and a clutch of awards. After all, only this year I’d read and loved recent award-winner Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, which was also nominated for several awards and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2008 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, I had high hopes for this novel. That’s the awful thing about books – a mediocre one can be saved by a perfect ending and a good one utterly ruined by a terrible one. I should point out immediately that any comments I make about this book are due to my disappointment in its ending.
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