Julia Deck

Julia Deck seems to specialise in first-person unreliable narrator novels. In this one, a middle-class couple, a successful town-planner and her husband who has been off work for many years because of mental health problems, move out of their Paris flat into a new suburban development. Everything is lovely out in the green-and-pleasant fringes of the city, apart from the non-working sustainable technology of the new houses and the appalling neighbours, that is...
The tone gradually shifts show more from suburban farce to murder mystery, and we're never quite sure how much we can trust what we're being told. Enjoyable, but sometimes it does feel a little too much like a TV script pretending to be a novel. show less

I read this book as an electronic advance reading copy (e-ARC) provided by Edelweiss. I have submitted my comments to the publisher through that web site.

This short book presents a "murder mystery" that is mysterious for more than the usual reasons. The author turns the idea of omniscient narrative on its head, leading the reader to question which story is the true one. Recommended for public libraries, although it should be shelved in general fiction rather than the mystery genre.

Offert par Isa. Excellent. Une autrice franco britannique raconte la vie de sa mère.

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