5/13/2023 0 Comments Faithful place book![]() He finally asks the right question of the right person and gets the wrong answer, and "the room went soundless, a huge perfect silence like snowfall, as if there had never been a noise in all the world". He kisses his daughter goodnight and danger is "flickering like heat lightning around the stuffed toys, filling up that cosy little bedroom like poison gas". ![]() ![]() Frank stands in his parents' living room during a wake and realises the murderer is present, someone in the room, and it starts to feel "underlit and threatening, shadows piled up too thick in the corners", as the booze continues to flow and the mourners keep on singing. Suddenly, everything Frank has told himself over the years is thrown into doubt.ĭarkness, tragedy and danger creep and crawl through this novel, not on a grand scale but on a chillingly believable, everyday one. Rosie's suitcase has been found, and their tickets to London – that she'd never have left behind – are still in it. Twenty years later, he gets a phone call from his youngest sister Jackie, the only one of his four siblings he still speaks to. ![]() ![]() Desperate to escape from his alcoholic, abusive father and manipulative mother, he leaves anyway. ![]()
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