Haven't They Grown: The addictive and engrossing Richard & Judy Book Club pick

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Beth was like a woman possessed, she would not give up, even when it seemed that she was being warned off. The mother, even while living on a different fucking continent from the father still never managed to get on birth control or escape, so she kept having the coincidentally timed and sexed rape babies of the dad. Hannah’s characters are rock solid and march through the mind with an assurance and validity that is quite startling.

Sophie Hannah’s other works include The Understudy, The New Hercule Poirot Mysteries Series, and Happiness, a Mystery: And 66 Attempts to Solve It. Just because she knows her ex-best friend Flora, lives near the football ground, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. The idea that it could be more than a logical explanation is so perfectly teased as Beth is determined to find out the true.

I really wanted to like it and really wanted to be able to rave about it but overall it just wasn't for me. She has an exceedingly supportive husband, a lot more supportive than I imagine most husbands would be and two very typical teenage kids who made up the very strong family.

An opportunity came for Beth when her son had a football tournament near to Flora and Lewis’s house, so after dropping her son off Beth goes for a quick nosy around and it isn’t long before she sees Flora arrive in her flash Range Rover. Unfortunately, we have adopted the Texan model of a huge plateful served with lots of calorific white rice. We follow Beth in her dogged and obsessive investigations and are rewarded with a consummate and fulfilling crescendo and an ultimately satisfying denouement.I was too – I even had one or two quite fantastical theories, although I wasn’t quite as obsessive as Beth. Being asked the same questions hundreds of times and then told the answers and all possible explanations of every scenario over and over again.