A Novel that terminates with the unthinkable

Although there were flaws to this debut novel, what really bowled me away were the clever plot twists. From the very beginning ~ the bad dream that 99-year-old Grace had ~ to the very end ~ the horrifying scene by the lake ~ Ms. Morton teases the reader with titillating glimpses about what exactly happened […]
FIVE DAYS GONE: The Memory of My Mother’s Disappearance as a child by Laura Cumming narrated by Kate Reading.

I don’t usually read memoir, as I normally don’t find it very interesting. And this quiet narrative of family strife would normally cause me not to continue due to boredom. But there was something about FIVE DAYS GONE that kept me going and enjoying this narrative until the very end. For one thing, it is […]