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Een jonge vrouw kan niet geloven dat haar vader zelfmoord heeft gepleegd. Zij zoekt in zijn verleden als inspecteur van politie naar de waarheid.
245 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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March 2, 2010
Confusing because it jumps repeatedly between past and present - but then that theme of now/then seemed pretty central to the book and maybe it wouldn't have worked without it. Entertaining enough - but the final outcome wasn't a surprise. All on all "Okay" sums it up.
April 8, 2017
3.5* rounded up.
Zoe's father Ray, a former police officer, has died in a single vehicle car accident. There are three strands to every chapter in this novel: the first describes a trip Zoe, her husband Paul, and daughter Holly make to Nottingham to meet Declan, with whom Ray spoke for 45 minutes shortly before his death. Then there is a strand (which I found irritating and mannered) where Declan, who has refused to reveal anything to Zoe in person, tells her all the things he wants her to know about what he and Ray did when she was a small child. Finally there is a strand describing testimony at the inquest into Ray's death.
There were things about the story which puzzled me: why did Zoe's mother abandon her when she left Ray? Why does Paul dislike Ray so much? Why did Zoe marry Paul/what does she see in him? Why, given that Zoe seems to love Ray so much, does she see so little of him? Why did Ray not meet Holly until she was two months old? What was the significance of the photo/sketch of Zoe's family? (Just that it was before the affair was revealed?) Why was Zoe told that Ray wasn't born in the cottage he always said was his birthplace? I wasn't sure if I had missed the significance of these questions, or if they just petered out in the text.
The fourth Phil Whitaker novel I have read and the least successful.
Zoe's father Ray, a former police officer, has died in a single vehicle car accident. There are three strands to every chapter in this novel: the first describes a trip Zoe, her husband Paul, and daughter Holly make to Nottingham to meet Declan, with whom Ray spoke for 45 minutes shortly before his death. Then there is a strand (which I found irritating and mannered) where Declan, who has refused to reveal anything to Zoe in person, tells her all the things he wants her to know about what he and Ray did when she was a small child. Finally there is a strand describing testimony at the inquest into Ray's death.
There were things about the story which puzzled me: why did Zoe's mother abandon her when she left Ray? Why does Paul dislike Ray so much? Why did Zoe marry Paul/what does she see in him? Why, given that Zoe seems to love Ray so much, does she see so little of him? Why did Ray not meet Holly until she was two months old? What was the significance of the photo/sketch of Zoe's family? (Just that it was before the affair was revealed?) Why was Zoe told that Ray wasn't born in the cottage he always said was his birthplace? I wasn't sure if I had missed the significance of these questions, or if they just petered out in the text.
The fourth Phil Whitaker novel I have read and the least successful.
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