Perhaps this audiobook suffered in my estimation by me listening to it immediately after Abraham Verghese’s sublimely fabulous ‘The Covenant of Water’ but I’m afraid I found it, for the most part completely uninteresting. In fact vapid and tedious.
The narrator was great – I loved her Kiwi accent, and I felt she put as much feeling and drama as was possible given what she was reading. I am amazed that this is written by the same author who wrote the wonderful novel The Luminaries, which I loved.
I got slightly interested towards the end, but perhaps mostly because I could tell it was going to be over soon.
Sarah Wray Writer 