I loved this, but it got caught up in my current reviewing backlog with the result that I’ve left it too long to be able to write a full review – bookish details don’t remain in my memory for long, I fear! However it kept me fully absorbed throughout, aided by the narration of the wonderful Harriet Walter. Slowly the looming tragedy unfolds, and now, as an adult looking back, Faith realises the meaning of things her younger self had not understood, so that she comes to comprehend why Vera did what she did… From that point, she gradually leads us through her own coming of age, and we see how her perceptions of her aunts change as she matures. Faith takes the reader back to when she was a young girl and sent to live with Vera and her sister to escape the bombing of London. Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming. Many years later her niece, Faith, is approached by a journalist who is planning to write a book about Vera’s crime and punishment, and wants Faith to tell him what she remembers of the events, and of the people who were involved. Read 553 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.
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