TBR

A successful novelist, Gerald Candless, dies and one of his daughters has been asked to write a memoir to her father. It then transpires that he is not who he claimed to be. He has adopted a new name and identity, so who was he really? She does a little digging around and then hires somebody to do some researching for her.

The outcome was a little predictable. I thought the novelist a cold-blooded creature, except where his daughters were concerned, his wife a bit of a doormat and the two daughters not particularly likeable characters either.

The actual reason for his self-enforced estrangement from the family he grew up with was totally absurd and not nearly as *dark* as I anticipated it would be, but despite my nit-picking it was still quite a good read!

Caught at the meetup in Nottingham today. Despite having decided not to take any book with me home, after I've read at the back of the book that this is "one of the most frightening novels" I just couldn't resist. Powers of persuasions?? No way.. :)

Via Freecycle to a fellow reader. Enjoy :-)