A Double Life

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It was a page turner and a fast read I will give the book that: it was just missing a strong ending. And she ended it rather well, I thought, avoiding the melodramatic damsel in extreme distress that can overshadow an otherwise well-written thriller. This is a book that says something about the ever-changing narrative of the truth, and it is also a novel about memory and what happens when we try to change or supplant bad things that may have happened to individuals within such flashbacks. I wondered, at that point, whether the book had an editor, or whether it was just so long, they’d simply skipped over the page.

In all, this is a satisfying read despite a scene that was puzzling and the last few pages being superfluous. Although the book was interesting and well written, I had no gasps, no sharp intakes of breath, no amped-up pulse until late in the story when all was wrapped up. When she reached the landing she found her estranged husband with a length of pipe outfitted with tape. A Double Life is a dull tale about Claire, a doctor and traumatized woman still struggling with the violence her father inflicted on her family over two decades ago.During the inquest her reputation is brought into question including concerns over her mental health and her sexual proclivities. While she is no John Le Carré, the plot and characters kept my attention, which is remarkable since I rarely read fiction.

You wonder if he thinks he knows who that person is now, and whether writing books of such extraordinary detail has got him any closer to finding out. He plead his innocence through his friend’s whom would be investigated for helping him escape: they denied everything and were never charged.Flynn Berry presents a storyline based on a famous unsolved crime in the twentieth century involving Lord Lucan. Once banished from the literary canon, this new release of her only novel includes both her prose and poetry that offer astute observations of Russian society.

El libro realmente trata sobre eso, su obsesión, sus sentimientos al respecto, los traumas generados y demás. In this instance, finding her father and desperately wanting to know the truth is an all consuming obsession. If the police take it seriously, they may approach her and ask for a DNA swab, to try to prove that the possible suspect is the man that Claire last saw when she was eight. Philby excels at creating a sense of impending doom and ratcheting up the tension as the stakes rise with each chapter.Not everyone gets a happy ending, either, if that’s not saying too much, and those who do may make the reader question who is allowed to get a better second chance: the abused or the abuser? As the title implies, one of the main characters is leading a double life, but what I thought were the reasons behind this title, turned out to be wrong. A number of men compete for the honour of world authority – Michael Gray, Howard Sounes, Greil Marcus, Robert Shelton, Clinton Heylin – and relations aren’t always good. In the end neither part quite works: the thoughtful part sinks beneath the unconvincing and unbelievable; the thriller part fails to thrill.