Peter M Hartley
Singular shrubbery
This is a truly unique book and hence it may divide opinions. I found that it did both sustain and entertain. It has a particular psychological trajectory and hence may not provide sufficient allure depending on the reader’s taste in emotional journals, but it supplies a unique truth in its perspective that hooked me.
Elizabeth Price
Evil is everywhere
We are subjected to inside information and gruesome details about the aftermath of the Bosnian skirmishes: the mass graves, the unspeakable detritus of war, the wholesale slaughter of human beings. The Shropshire events are not as overt as the murders in Sarajevo, but every bit as terrifying.
Page after page leads us to the explosive conclusion, a bombshell you won't soon forget.
John
A good, but not a feel-good, read
This is not a feel-good read to settle into and brighten the cold days. But, it is well-written and the development of the plot provides gripping reading, and, importantly, it provokes thought and reflection.
Janet L
Interesting that a woman writer has so strongly got inside a male mind with a good psychological understanding of characters.
Liam K
A true page-turner
An emotional and extremely well written book that flits between the war-torn former Yugoslavia and the scenic county of Shropshire. Not your average story of romance but one of love tragedies and true grit.
A terrific read which is enhanced by the author's attention to detail.
Powerful and thought provoking.
Alison D D
A tense but interesting story...
The story reads with a lot of tension, where one is always waiting for something to happen.
