Seaside

by Scarlett Thomas

Lily Pascale (3)

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When an identical twin apparently commits suicide, the incident is clearly tragic but straightforward. Straightforward to most, with the exception of novelist Emma Winter, whose friend Lily, a capable investigator, discovers a killer is on the loose.

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Suicide is painless…
Laura Carter’s signed suicide note is found next to her lifeless body. Not much scope for a mystery here until Laura’s identical twin Alex claims she’s Laura. Local recluse and crime writer Emma Winter hires Lily Pascale to establish the truth - cue philosophical musings on identity and “the Other”. The search for the twin’s identity runs parallel with Lily’s search for her own. In fact it wouldn’t be a stretch to suggest the mystery is the sub plot and cipher for Lily’s/Scarlett’s soul searching.

it brings on many changes ….
Not exactly new territory but, hindsight being a wonderful thing, you can detect a shift toward the themes of “The End Of Mr Y” and sense the character Lily is show more spent. "Suicide" (Seaside) is the last of the series and Scarlett has, by the books end, effectively killed her off (Given the identity a kind of virtual suicide?)

And I can take or leave it if I please…..
I won’t be pressing this one into the hands of friends and acquaintances but I will be picking up “Bright Young Things”
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Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her novels include The Seed Collectors, PopCo, The End of Mr.Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.

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Canonical title
Seaside
Original publication date
2005
People/Characters
Lily Pascale

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6120 .H66 .S43Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature2001-
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Languages
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