review by Babs Simpson on show 12th April 2012
As I have always enjoyed Robert Goddards books very much I am delighted to say that Fault Line is definitely up to his always high standard. As usual, the plot unfolds inexorably towards a totally unexpected and satisfactory conclusion, full of twists, turns and tragedies on the way.
The hero, Jonathan Kellaway, takes a holiday job with a small china clay mining company in St Austell in 1968. He quickly becomes involved with members of the family who own the company and spends an idyllic holiday at their villa on Capri. Many undercurrents gradually emerge, baffling and tragic and jonathan after university, is persuaded to work full time in the china Clay industry.
As he rises higher in the company, he begins to question motives and actions until in 2010, an academic is employed to write a history of the company from its earliest days. She soon realises that papers are missing from several years in the 1960s and it is the uncovering of the secrets they contain that provides the denouement.
Robert Goddard always fills me with admiration. He writes in a totally satisfactory, realistic style and plots his novels quite brilliantly so that the reader is drawn in from the outset and gripped from start to finish. Fault Line is especially fascinating with its almost local interest - St Austell is not far away, dealing with an industry we are all aware of from local TV news and papers.
Do read it. It is very satisfying, exciting and worthwhile.
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