![]() ![]() The story moves slowly, occasionally making sudden spurts of action, but even the action is described slowly, almost languidly, so that the tension is magnified with each sentence one moves closer to each narrative climax. This is one of the best psychological thrillers I have read in a long while. When a mysterious stranger arrives in their midst, he sets in motion a chain of events that will change all their lives in one way or another. His cousin and her children lead a fairly care-free existence, a young musician falls hard for a young woman who has left her family in order to pursue her dream to become a solo violinist, and another young man worries over his pet hawk, which seems to be dying. The owner is obsessed with underground railways and is writing a complete history of the London tube. A group of society’s outsiders rent cheap rooms in an old, mouldering school building. ![]()
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