The heroine of the novel is Matilda, a widow in her fifties, who lives alone in an isolated cottage in Cornwall, England. Her four children all live abroad and rarely visit her, and troubled by her husband's death she has decided to end it all - commit suicide.
Matilda's plan is to go to the beach, swim out and drown herself. However, a gang of youngsters spoil her plan when they show up with the intention of having a party on "her" beach, and Matilda moves on to throw herself out from a bridge, only to find that the bridge has been occupied by a young man who has had the same idea as she. Matilda recognizes the man, Hugh, as someone who is on the run from the police for having murdered his mother, and she invites him to stay with her in her cottage.
In the following days Matilda tells Hugh the story of her life, bit by bit. It is a story about a life filled with lies, adultery, incest and murder. Hugh is constantly worried that she may betray him and call the police, and Matilda partly hopes that he will just disappear and partly hopes he will stay. When he finally does go, Matilda is left alone with her skeletons.

Congratulations on finishing SiB!

Takk, Vilda, jeg hadde helt glemt at jeg ønsket å lese denne! Synes fremdeles den virker interessant. Dessuten trenger jeg å lese litt på engelsk for å gi hjernen noen utfordringer:)
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Vilda has written a good resume of this novel. I liked the way it was written, and the idea of to people meeting each other at the point of suicide, and instead of Jumping from the bridge, they start to talk.

The book is a kind of "humour noir", - the more I learn to know the main character, the worse the story turns. Not exactly spreading colours in november, this book, Even if it was easy to read it.

Ready to travell on to new readers.

Bringing the book to a BC meet up in Sandnes tomorrow, to see if anyone is interested in reading.

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