Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent novel
I thoroughly enjoyed Case Histories. I’ve not always found Kate
Atkinson that easy in the past, but this was excellent.
Really, it’s a
series of character studies, loosely held together by a crime story.
It’s a diffuse plot with several points of view in the narration,
but somehow it all works extremely well. Atkinson writes beautifully
and paces her story very well so I found it very gripping and kept
wanting to get back to reading more, but the chief pleasure for me is
her superb characterisation. She creates a wholly plausible and very
diverse set of characters whose portraits are forensic, humane and
very clear-sighted.
Not everything is
tied up neatly at the end, which I found a strength of the book. I
think it’s a brilliant piece of fiction and far more that just a
crime novel. I’ll definitely be looking out the next two in the
series and I can recommend this very warmly.
(My thanks to Random
House for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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