Saturday, January 07, 2006
A Child's Book of True Crime
by Cloe Hooper
This was for Anna Lena's dad's Christmas stocking. It recounts in two parallel stories the mysterious murder of an adulterous husband's girlfriend, and then the disapearance of his wife. The setting is a sort of 'edge of the Earth' locale, in a coastal town, perhaps the only coastal town, of Tasmania.
The end of the story is a little confusing, but in a way, satisfying. Our modern day teacher, who is secretly seeing one of the father of one of her students. The father's wife has written a book about the mysterious murder, that had occured 10-20 years previously. She ends up becoming quite spooked by her predicament, and breaks up with the father. It isn't entirely satisfying, as she doesn't behave quite sanely or appropriately. But what am I expecting?! She is starts out in a fairly unsatisfactory position after all.
This book leaves me with a desire to...see the ruins in Tasmania.
This was for Anna Lena's dad's Christmas stocking. It recounts in two parallel stories the mysterious murder of an adulterous husband's girlfriend, and then the disapearance of his wife. The setting is a sort of 'edge of the Earth' locale, in a coastal town, perhaps the only coastal town, of Tasmania.
The end of the story is a little confusing, but in a way, satisfying. Our modern day teacher, who is secretly seeing one of the father of one of her students. The father's wife has written a book about the mysterious murder, that had occured 10-20 years previously. She ends up becoming quite spooked by her predicament, and breaks up with the father. It isn't entirely satisfying, as she doesn't behave quite sanely or appropriately. But what am I expecting?! She is starts out in a fairly unsatisfactory position after all.
This book leaves me with a desire to...see the ruins in Tasmania.
