The Alleyn family, only consisting of the 34-year-old Jonathan and his mother is surrounded by secrets and lies: A little more than a decade earlier disappeared Jonathan childhood sweetheart Alice allegedly with another man while he was at war. Since then, Jonathan has returned from the war, his health and his psyche because of the war and Alice are so strongly affected that he no longer goes out of the house. And Starling wants it that way. Here you will help Rachel. After all, the looks like the missing Alice ...
The content can be, if you do not want to reveal too much, only roughly outline. Within the Group there are several links and events, however, that make it so complex, so also partly implausible.
Katherine Webb is a very good storyteller who can adapt their writing style of that time: your character talk not like nowadays, but how they should probably have spoken two hundred years ago. And according to the sharply drawn characters behave well. The narrative has so kept me happy that I have read the 530 page book in two days, because I wanted to know how to unravel the tangle, and by the end could never fully predict the outcome. Therefore, the four star.
A star deduction there, among other things for the ambiguities that remain with regard to Rachel's family and to me indistinctly elaborate, evolving relationship between Jonathan and Rachel, but also because of Starling. As in her previous book creates Katherine Webb characters who are not just good or bad, but quite complex. Starling is one such. Some figures of the book they like, but I can not understand for the life, why. In real life, I would not want to be among my friends.
