Unfortunately, the murderer of her family is about to be released from jail. She seems to have put her past to rest, and no one connects her to the earlier murders in Devon. Thirty years later, Joanna Mason Hunter is a physician living in Edinburgh, the happily married mother of a one-year-old whom she adores, a woman who appears to have it all. Joanna, heeding her mother’s screams to run, escapes into a nearby wheat field from which she is later rescued. Joanna Mason is only six years old when her father abandons the family in rural Devon and returns to London, but this trauma is just a prelude to the disaster which follows soon after, the murder of her mother, eight-year-old sister, and her baby brother in a slashing attack while they are walking. So marked are they by their sudden tragedies, that they never really escape their pasts, and may spend the rest of their lives wondering “when will there be good news.”įive separate plot lines evolve and occasionally overlap here, and in each of these plots the main characters are all needy people hiding an inner loneliness from which they would like to escape.
Instead, it is a novel which grows out of the terrible traumas that children and young people must endure when people they love die violently. Involving the reader from the suspenseful opening pages, Kate Atkinson’s third Jackson Brodie novel is not a traditional mystery. But it had never happened when he died (briefly, he heard Dr.
He had always imagined that when you died there was a last moment when everything was cleared up for you-the business finished, the questions answered, the lost things found-and you thought, ‘Oh, right, I understand, and then you were free to go into the darkness of the light. “Everywhere you looked there was unfinished business and unanswered questions.
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