TITLE: TREE SURGERY FOR BEGINNERS
AUTHOR: Patrick Gale
DATE PUBLISHED: 1998
DATE READ: April 2008
NOTES: The story moves at a fast pace and is a very easy read. Lawrence’s wife leaves him, taking their young child, Lucy, following a violent quarrel. He is suspected of her murder and much is made of the case in the newspapers. But he is exonerated when she appears a few weeks later having been with an American she has befriended. After an intriguing beginning the book went downhill for me after that with too many wild coincidences and strange secrets. For instance he meets an American woman when he is working at a holiday complex in California and they are drawn to each other in a platonic way – surprise, surprise, it turns out that when Lawrence’s mother gave birth to him (illegitimately) he was a twin and the girl was given up for adoption.
And his father-in-law turned out to be a murderer….
All a bit of a disappointment after the previous two books I read by Patrick Gale.
AUTHOR: Patrick Gale
DATE PUBLISHED: 1998
DATE READ: April 2008
NOTES: The story moves at a fast pace and is a very easy read. Lawrence’s wife leaves him, taking their young child, Lucy, following a violent quarrel. He is suspected of her murder and much is made of the case in the newspapers. But he is exonerated when she appears a few weeks later having been with an American she has befriended. After an intriguing beginning the book went downhill for me after that with too many wild coincidences and strange secrets. For instance he meets an American woman when he is working at a holiday complex in California and they are drawn to each other in a platonic way – surprise, surprise, it turns out that when Lawrence’s mother gave birth to him (illegitimately) he was a twin and the girl was given up for adoption.
And his father-in-law turned out to be a murderer….
All a bit of a disappointment after the previous two books I read by Patrick Gale.
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