Hmmm - not sure what to say about this one really. It left me feeling depressed and downtrodden!Although well written, the characters all seemed almost too real in a 'normal' sort of way, a bit like Eastenders without the violence or in-breeding. Although the book was mainly set in Amsterdam, and...
He was taking Jack to Amsterdam, he was helping her out, even though it meant she was flying to Spain with Gordon. So it seemed like another small incremental step on his slow road to atonement and everything would be better for him if he were to receive even the briefest, most cursory recognitio...
Above all, they had woven their threaded whispers through the silence which settled like snow on the farm house, and at night, when dreams beat wildly about his head like dark-winged bats, they screamed their fervent fury. Now they sought new ways to speak to him. An invisible finger scrawled mes...
On the kitchen table a loaf of bread was white-furred and blue-measled. In the vase on the window sill the heads of flowers wilted wearily, a brown wreath of fallen petals circling its base. No one had entered the cottage after her husband’s body was taken away and John Gibson’s phone call had be...
The taste of his sickness lingers in his mouth and he wants a drink but as he switches off the engine he sits perfectly still and holds the steering wheel with both hands. He wishes that he were about to set off on another journey, drifting once more past sleeping towns at dawn, on motorways in t...
All he had to do was knock off the indicator light and drive away. The line of oncoming cars preventing him making the right turn through the open gates and into the curved driveway, showed no sign of breaking. Behind, the road was still clear with no following car to be confused by a change of s...
As dusk fell, we pulled off the dirt road and pitched our tents in the shelter of the truck. We had already dropped people at various projects along the route. The husband and wife doctors were staying at the capital to work in the new Red Cross hospital and that left Haneen our driver, Veronica,...