A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

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A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

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The Quinn family agreed to cover Hannah’s medical expenses, but only if Natalie agreed to marry Sebastian, the illegitimate and good-for-nothing son of the wealthy Klein family, and replace her sister as his spouse. I read the author's previous book, and while it was a reasonably enjoyable read, I thought it was slow going, with an ending that left me confused. However, I was still curious about her newest novel when I requested the ARC. This is a chilling psychological thriller that looks at how children's healing can be stifled when exposed to a tragedy in the family. Claire and Robbie were small children when their father walked into their house killed the nanny and attempted to kill their mom. Unable to understand what took place, she has spent the last 30 years questioning where her father is and how he could have committed such a crime. I’m sure Tulsa is going to lead to a flood of Dylan books about certain time periods and certain albums.

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A Double Life has a number of characters, none that particularly appealed but I did not have to like them to become wrapped up in their lives. Tom was the only person I felt deserved my empathy, Gabriela is self-centred, self-serving and basically just selfish. Getting herself caught up in a dreadful situation that spirals completely out of control, Gabriela doesn’t consider the result of her actions taken until it clearly becomes too late. Heylin’s depth of knowledge of all things Dylan enables him to sniff out the fake from the factual, shaking out truth from fiction. Dylan himself was a master magician at covering up his past. Other people who were ‘there’ tell conflicting stories. However A Double Life was more of a domestic noir novel told from the view point of two characters: Gabriela who works for the foreign office and is living with her partner and two young children is the main focus. Isobel, the other protagonist is a reporter who witnesses a murder whilst high on drugs. Of course, it’s a strange situation. You don’t normally do a complete new book on a subject you’ve already seemingly covered. I tried to make it a very different book. As I say in the introduction, I tried to use material that has historical veracity. By that, I mean a document, tapes, contemporary recollections rather than latter-day recollections. There’s still great anecdotal stories in Behind the Shades that absolutely reward reading. Was it genuine, arising from Dylan’s soul? He later said it was what was ‘in’. And when he was over it, he did his own thing, scandalously adopting the next big thing in music. He went electric. The audiences wanted the ‘old Bob Dylan,’ booing him across the world. In response, he turned up the volume.There is something dazzling about marriage,” writes Clare Carlisle at the start of this wonderful book. “That leap into the open-endedness of another human being.” Prof Carlisle knows about such leaps: she is the biographer of madcap Danish sage Søren Kierkegaard, for whom Abraham’s leap of faith in God is the ultimate act of trust, beyond reason or calculation. Marriage could be like that. The book ends in 1966, Dylan a mere twenty-five and already burned out by the cage of fame, living on the edge, fueled by alcohol, drugs, physically and psychologically worn to a skeleton from an overindulgence of the senses, at a breaking point. And another chance to reinvent his life. Claire is a London physician living under an assumed identity. Time and again she finds herself disappointed when police tell her that their new search to find her missing father has not yielded any results. Twenty six years ago, while Claire and her brother were asleep upstairs in their London home, her father brutally murdered Claire’s nanny and then attempted to murder her mother. He fled the scene and was never apprehended. But Claire is determined to find her father and then discover the truth about what really happened that night.

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I loved how the two ladies stories run parallel to each other without any obvious connection and seamlessly join together at the end. Two years after Lewes’s death aged 61 in 1878, George Eliot got married. John Cross was a banker 20 years her junior and had doubled her bank balance with canny investments. Their Venetian honeymoon was a disaster. Cross had a breakdown and attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Grand Canal. As if marriage is not just something one leaps into, but, in extremis, leaps out of.

Berry, whose Under the Harrow won her the Edgar award for best first novel, skips between Claire’s present-day investigations and her reconstruction of her parents’ lives almost three decades earlier in this beautifully paced and satisfyingly ominous story. Recommended to readers who enjoy domestic thrillers that aren’t too intense. This is a 3.5 but rounding up to 4 for keeping me entertained. Our window into both worlds—the cluttered “real” one and the expansive virtual-reality alternative—is 18-year-old orphan Wade Watts ( Tye Sheridan), who lives a double life as a vaguely elven avatar with frosty, malleable hair and a DeLorean constructed from 1s and 0s.

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The writing starts out unpleasantly and evens out abit, but characters are flat and frankly their actions illogical, a man not realising his partner is 16 weeks pregnant with her 3rd child is a reach. Dylan’s determination to succeed was relentless. He was a poser. A user. A dissembler. Adept at reinventing himself. Claire's father, Colin Spenser, did a Lord Lucan disappearance as well. His car was later found in a field abandoned with bloodstained seats. Afterwards, Claire's mother moves to a completely different locale with her children. The reader sits with thoughts of Colin's grotesque deed. Was it really Colin or was he set up some how? And where in the world has he escaped to? This is a psychological thriller about one woman's search for the truth. It's also about class, lies, secrets, living a double life, and of course, the search for the truth. This book is well-written and nicely paced. I found that the more I thought about this book, the more I enjoyed it. It does make one wonder; how would you react/feel if one of your parents was accused of a horrible crime and you never see them again. How would this affect you and your life? Ok so I was baffled by this. The premise was great and I was excited to read it, but halfway through I still wasn't sure how Isobel and Gabriela's stories would link up and there are so many unanswered questions still at the end....A former tabloid reporter aka professional dirtdigger, name of Howard Sounes, had decided to …go all National Enquirer on the man called Alias. The result : a depressingly well-trundled, semi-literate stroll Down the Highway.



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