Strange. Didn't really like it; can't put my finger on why.

Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil, Lucien. Unnervingly, her lover's wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true crime novel about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress. When Lucien displays violent imagery in his crayon sketches, Kate wonders how well her pupil understands his mother's grisly work, and why he's exposed to it. Suspecting the adult account of Black Swan Point's murder to be wrong, Kate imagines her own version of the novel, for children, narrated by Australian animals. But has her obsession with the crime aligned her fate with that of the murdered adulteress? Chloe Hooper brilliantly portrays a young woman reluctant to enter or conform to the world of adults. Kate Byrne is compelled by the lives of her nine-year-old students, a misfit among their parents. And though Lucien's father brings her to life sexually in scenes of escalating eroticism, he does nothing to penetrate her obsession with the past. Kate is fixated on the crime of passion that occurred years earlier, less and less aware of her own reputation in the present.

Picked up at UnConvention. Thanks AliceF, I've had my eye on this one!

This was a strange, dreamy, little novel. Story didn't really go anywhere - all a bit wordy & unfocused.

This is the first book I've found and it was really exciting when I spotted it on a bench in the Royal Victoria Park (a very beautiful place to spend a Sunday BTW). I'd heard about book crossing but never looked into it. I plan to read it and pass it on to a friend in Zurich so it can continue its travels in a more exotic location (Birmingham and Southampton so far... poor thing ;-)

CAUGHT IN SOUTHAMPTON HAMPSHIRE UK

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This was journaled before I could make release notes.