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Chargement... A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)par Chloe Hooper
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A strange book, but it worked for me. ( ) Pulling you inexorably closer from the first page, Chloe Hooper delineates the feelings and fears of a small Tasmanian community, still touched by a crime that left one woman dead and another missing, never to be found. Strange inconsistencies haunt those left to remember the events of that night. For instance, if Margot stabbed to death her husband’s young lover, Ellie Siddell, and all the facts point to her guilt, why was there not a trace of blood in the car she supposedly drove afterwards to Suicide Point? There she is thought to have stepped out of her shoes and into the dark, swirling air, to tumble into the sea below, but her body was never recovered. If this sounds like a straightforward whodunit, it certainly is not. It’s also a treatise on infidelity, but teasingly so, with not a spare adjective or one false note. A parallel story begins several years later, when a provocative young teacher, Kate, joins the staff of the local primary school and the town’s married lawyer begins to take an inordinate interest in the education of his young son. Events rapidly take a somewhat predictable turn that ends – well, it would be wrong to spoil the suspense, except to say it is not a predictable book. It is beautifully written. Not all readers will appreciate the passages that give the commentary of the animals, some of which are extinct, but they’re not cute - not at all. . The novel is also partly about women (and girls) as victims, but don’t let that put you off. There is no lecturing or polemic, but a cleverly poised subversion of expectations. Slightly unhinged, perhaps, but a deliciously entertaining read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Kate est la maîtresse de Thomas Marne, père de l'un de ses élèves de CM1. Veronica, la femme de Thomas, est en train d'écrire le récit du meurtre de Ellie Siddelle, une jeune femme qui était la maîtresse d'un homme marié. Troublée par les coincidences entre son parcours et celui d'Ellie, Kate décide de se pencher sur son cas et d'en écrire l'histoire. Un premier roman. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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