review by showhost
Starts off in the 1970's then jumps to 2003. I couldn't see the connection of the 70's for a while but eventually it all comes together.
1970's: Two 13yr old girls sexually tease three 15yr old lads who are fuelled with vodka. Tostesterone runs high & one of the girls 'Cill' is gang raped by them. The other girl, Louise, witnesses the rape along with her 10yr old brother, who was tagging along with the girls at the time.
2003: Arthur Jonathan Hughes is meeting with Miss George Gardner, to discuss a case which happened in early 1970's. A woman was slashed to death with a knife and her grandson was charged and found guilty. Three years later he took his own life after being bullied in prison. George believes Howard stamp, the grandson, was wrongly accused.
The meeting, in the local pub, doesn't go well. George is late, Arthur endures racist bullying from the pub landlord then he is robbed at the train station on his way home.
After Arthur and George get over their differences with the help of Arthurs literary agent, they begin to unearth facts which link the rape and murder case from the 70's.
The murdered woman lived in or next to the same street as Cill, the rape victim, who subsequently went missing the day after and was never seen again.
It's about how an abusive & bullying childhood can shape & affect a childs future & character and how we shouldn't judge people (book by it's cover..) by their appearance.
It's a slow but clever story but it lost me a little towards the end, trying to keep up with & remember who was who & married to who, especially as Louise changes her name several times to Daisy, then Cill, but not 'The' Cill..get it?.......you will eventually but who killed her I'm still not sure..?
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