Just finished reading The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah. It felt good to go back to my detective story reading years. When I was younger, I distinctly remember reading all the Alfred Hitchcock books in the elementary school library...or at least I think it was Hitchcock...I also loved the Box Cart Children series. I really tried to get into the Babysitters Club because all of my girlfriends read them, and even tried a hand at Nancy Drew, but I was a bit of a tom boy at that age and anything with pink repelled me. Therefore, Alfred it was. This book was pretty good, but there was a lot of unfinished business that I would have liked resolved. The romance between two of the characters was enjoyably left hanging, but the more serious issues concerning the protagonist, Sally Thorning, were muted and left to be forgotten. I would have chosen a different title also...
A quick set up--About a year before the setting, Sally Thorning had an affair with a man named Mark Bretherick for a week at a hotel resort. Now, sitting in her living room she watches the news report of a different man named Mark Bretherick coping with his grievances of the loss of his daughter Lucy and wife Geraldine, both of which the Mark from the hotel had mentioned. And it didn't help that the late Geraldine was the spitting image of Sally. Dun dun dun...
Its a fun quick read if you're bored. You can borrow my copy if yah likes.
box car children!
ReplyDeleteand nancy drew is SO not pink! those were bomb