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Whatever You Love

3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 · rating details · 614 ratings · 153 reviews

Longlisted for the Orange Prize and Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, Louise Doughty’s hauntingly beautiful investigation of love, loss, and revenge is a literary page-turner that will linger in your mind far after the cover closes. When a hit-and-run car crash claims Laura’s daughter Betty, her life is turned upside down. But when the courts rule the death an acciden...more

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Published June 3rd 2010 by Faber & Faber (first published 2010)

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Jul 03, 2012 Margaret rated it 4 of 5 stars

Set in a coastal English town this is, as it says in the blurb, an � astonishing and emotionally-charged novel�, about Laura whose nine-year old daughter, Betty has been killed by a hit and run driver. Laura tells her story alternating between events before Betty� s death � how she met and married David, Betty� s father, their subsequent divorce after his affair with Chloe � and after Betty� s death. Laura�'s grief is palpable, which makes this a harrowing book to read. It is also startling and...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Lydia Presley rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, contemporary, fiction

This was a tough book for me. Filled with hauntingly beautiful descriptions, and gut-wrenching emotions, Whatever You Love tells the hard story of loss and picking up the pieces afterward.

Louise Doughty kept me guessing - even when the most horrific of events had passed (at the beginning of the book, no less), the story kept moving and twisting and turning in ways I could not predict. I sympathized with Laura and felt every bit of anger, despair, and desperation was not only warranted - but also...more

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Apr 01, 2012 Julie (julie37619) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: womens-lit, family-centered-fiction

Laura is the single mother of two young children. When her oldest child, Betty, is killed by a hit and run driver, she is devastated. She is also horrified to learn that the man responsible for the accident is walking away with no consequences. She decides to take matters into her own hands - to find out whatever the man loves and to take it away from him.

Writing
Very good. I think the plot is the real highlight of this story, and the writing does a great job of highlighting the story and the cha...more Laura is the single mother of two young children. When her oldest child, Betty, is killed by a hit and run driver, she is devastated. She is also horrified to learn that the man responsible for the accident is walking away with no consequences. She decides to take matters into her own hands - to find out whatever the man loves and to take it away from him.

Writing
Very good. I think the plot is the real highlight of this story, and the writing does a great job of highlighting the story and the characters. It's not something to jumps out as particularly amazing, but in this case, I think the characters and the plot made up for that. I have no critiques of the writing and I think the author did an amazing job of keeping the reader guessing.

Entertainment Value
I was into this one from the very first page. I really like (and like to hate) all of the characters, and I like how gradually they are revealed to the reader from different levels. As more of the story and the history is revealed, we see that we may have prematurely judged some characters. I like that in a book.

Overall
This is one I certainly recommend. I would classify it as women's lit because I feel like it's broadest appeal will be for women. It's narrated by a woman and deals largely with the emotions that come from being a wife and mother. However, I hate to use women's lit because that brings to mind a certain stereotype that doesn't really fit this book. This one leans more to the literary side of fiction and away from what I would consider straight up women's lit.

One note: A large portion of this book deals with Laura's husband's affair and subsequent abandonment of her for his mistress. As much as I loved this book, I wish I had known that up front. Affair books make me really uncomfortable. It's funny because Luke always knows when I start saying "If you ever..." that I must be reading a book where a character has an affair. I'm really glad I read this one, but had I known how much of a role the affair plays throughout the book I may not have picked it up.(less)

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Mar 29, 2012 Q. Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

“Whatever You Love” by Louise Doughty is one of these books that makes me want to read the author’s back list NOW NOW NOW. The book does have its weaknesses, but boy, oh boy, Doughty has the right (write) stuff. And it doesn’t hurt the story is set in England.

My biggest beef, I think, is that the blurb is misleading. Here it is: When a hit-and-run car crash claims Laura’s daughter Betty, her life is turned upside down. But when the courts rule the death an accident, the lines dividing justice fr...more

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Nov 17, 2010 Louise rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: literature-fiction

Laura and David have a wonderful life together with two children, nine-year-old Betty and her younger brother Rees. Betty and her best friend Willow go to school together and belong to after schools clubs. Betty and Willow have been asking their Mom’s if they can walk from school to the Church Hall where they take their dancing lessons after school, by themselves. After much prodding Laura and Willow’s mother agree to allow them to walk there for the first time alone, explaining carefully which...more

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Oct 17, 2011 Nykki rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm under half way through this novel and it's intreeging me. I do not want to put it down. I'm looking forward to the link to why the author took the first 57 pages to explain how the mother and father finally came to be together. This must be significant, especially since they are now seperated. It is very hard to read such a difficult storyline being a mother myself and can only imagine how similar my reactions would be....

ok now finished the book and did not like the ending... to mediocre.....more

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Aug 09, 2010 DubaiReader rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: lter, 2010

Full of raw emotion, brilliant.

I really enjoyed this book - in as much as you can enjoy reading about bereavement. It was very well written, full of raw emotion, yet not merely a sob story.

Betty, the 9 year old victim of a hit-and-run, dies in the opening pages of the book - we only get to know her in memory flashes and she retains a ghost-like feel. For her parents, David and Laura, the world ends on that day. Her three year old brother doesn't really understand what has happened but some sense...more

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Sep 05, 2011 Roger Pettit rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a gripping, suspenseful and beautifully written novel that is partly a meditation on grief and partly a sort of thriller. It examines the impact on two young professional parents - Laura and David - of the death of their daughter Betty in a hit and run accident. It also concentrates on the ups and downs of their relationship. The novel is very well constructed. The focus of the story shifts from past to present seamlessly. The prose is razor sharp and contains a number of piercing insigh...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Gina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, 2012-book-releases, book-club, ccc-club, challenges-2013, chick-lit, contemporary-fiction, death, death-child, family, british-fiction, grief, library, literary-fiction, mothers, mystery, relationships, romance, women-s-fiction, women-s-issues, 5-00-rating, reviewed

Goodreads Description- I study the photo in the same way that a spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organization. I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out what you love, then whatever it is, I am going to track it down and I am going to take it away from you."

After the death of Laura's nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while,...more Goodreads Description- I study the photo in the same way that a spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organization. I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out what you love, then whatever it is, I am going to track it down and I am going to take it away from you."

After the death of Laura's nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while, her inner turmoil is reopening the old wounds of her passionate love affair with Betty's father, David, and his abandonment of the family for another woman.

Haunted by her past and driven to a breaking point by her thirst for retribution, Laura discovers the unforeseen lengths she is willing to go to for love and vengeance.

This book is brutal. Let me start out by saying that: it's brutal, and there's no two ways about it. In the opening pages, Laura Needham is informed by two police officers that her nine year-old daughter, Betty, has been killed in a hit-and-run accident while walking to dance practice after school. In the pages that follow, we see not only Laura's overwhelming grief but we also gain a window into her turbulent history with David, Betty's father, who has recently left the family for a younger woman.

There's a lot of reviews for this piece that note the lack of hope in the story, which is accurate. I wasn't expecting a hopeful story. Laura struggles to comprehend the loss of Betty and how to handle caring for her younger son now that he is, effectively, an only child with no comprehension of what happened. Laura must deal with this as she is still reeling from her separation from David, who has since fathered a child with his new wife.

Writing
Very good. I think the plot is the real highlight of this story, and the writing does a great job of highlighting the story and the characters. It's not something to jumps out as particularly amazing, but in this case, I think the characters and the plot made up for that. I have no critiques of the writing and I think the author did an amazing job of keeping the reader guessing.

Entertainment Value
I was into this one from the very first page. I really like (and like to hate) all of the characters, and I like how gradually they are revealed to the reader from different levels. As more of the story and the history is revealed, we see that we may have prematurely judged some characters. I like that in a book.

Overall
This is one I certainly recommend. I would classify it as women's lit because I feel like it's broadest appeal will be for women. It's narrated by a woman and deals largely with the emotions that come from being a wife and mother. However, I hate to use women's lit because that brings to mind a certain stereotype that definitely do not fit this book. This one leans more to the literary side of fiction and away from what I would consider straight up women's lit/chick lit. This was a definite 5 star book for me and would recommend it to anyone looking for a smart and literary form of women's fiction.

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Jul 21, 2012 Rhonda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012

Laura's daughter is killed in a pedestrian/car accident and the driver is not charged. Laura decides that the driver must pay, but not with his own life, but with that of 'whatever he loves' so that he can feel what it's like to live with that pain she feels.

Very thoughtful writing, flows well, and didn't disappoint!

Favorite Quotes:

"I still didn't know any different, there in Lorraine's kitchen, but what came to me then was an awareness that I didn't know any different---knowledge that my ignor...more Laura's daughter is killed in a pedestrian/car accident and the driver is not charged. Laura decides that the driver must pay, but not with his own life, but with that of 'whatever he loves' so that he can feel what it's like to live with that pain she feels.

Very thoughtful writing, flows well, and didn't disappoint!

Favorite Quotes:

"I still didn't know any different, there in Lorraine's kitchen, but what came to me then was an awareness that I didn't know any different---knowledge that my ignorance existed." p 156

"I believed it was affection rather than quilt that made him take my hand between his two so tenderly. I thought that he was going to go on to tell me how sorry he was for all the pain he had caused. Perhaps he was about to suggest that we go away for a weekend togheter, just the two of us, that he had spoken to his sister who had occasionally offered to have the children overnight. Is there any limit to the self-delusion human beings are capable of? It is like a desert that stretches as far as the eye can see.
Let's not call it naivety. Let's call it idiocy. What else could have made me use a line straight from a country-and-western song? Blind, stupid and blind--but above all, stupid.
There was a moment's silence, then the knowledge of what he was about to say came crashing down upon me, as hard and wide as a ceiling collapse during an earthquake, like our whole house coming down, for indeed it was. I pulled my hand out from his---forcibly as he resisted---rose from the sofa and began to back away from him. He looked up at me, his face open and his gaze pouring pity. I do believe that at that moment I went, remporarily, quite mad---mad with the humiliation of it, mad with the knowledge that after years of battling and with the children as my unknowing foot soldiers, I had still lost." p 178-9

"There are things we know in our brains and things we know in our bones. I've learned to trust the bones." p 181

"I think of how I had to hurt someone because of all the things that were hurting me and how I would never have seen it that way at that time. I think how there is always a way we can justify ourselves to ourselves, make ourselves moral, heroic even---even Edith probably believes herself to be an honest, decent person. There is no end to it, I think." p 362

"What I felt for David in those early days shouldn't have matured into marriage and children---it was the sort of love adulterers have, fierce and full of wanting. It should have burned itself out, like those things do, but instead something else was built upon it, real love, deep and cozy and mutual, and two children grew of that love. Maybe that's all it is, I think, as I stand watching this man with his head bowed at his kitchen table, this whole construct, love or whatever we want to call it---a raw need, as rough as tree bark, a fear of death so strong we can't stop ourselves. But if that is so, I think, then what is it I feel for him now, when we are both so beaten? What is this that we feel for each other now if not love? Love built on pain---the kind that lasts: whatever we love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever." p 365-6(less)

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Jul 17, 2012 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This book is brutal. Let me start out by saying that: it's brutal, and there's no two ways about it. In the opening pages, Laura Needham is informed by two police officers that her nine year-old daughter, Betty, has been killed in a hit-and-run accident while walking to dance practice after school. In the pages that follow, we see not only Laura's overwhelming grief but we also gain a window into her turbulent history with David, Betty's father, who has recently left the family for a younger wom...more This book is brutal. Let me start out by saying that: it's brutal, and there's no two ways about it. In the opening pages, Laura Needham is informed by two police officers that her nine year-old daughter, Betty, has been killed in a hit-and-run accident while walking to dance practice after school. In the pages that follow, we see not only Laura's overwhelming grief but we also gain a window into her turbulent history with David, Betty's father, who has recently left the family for a younger woman.

There's a lot of reviews for this piece that note the lack of hope in the story, which is accurate and relatively unsurprising. I wasn't expecting a hopeful story. Laura struggles to comprehend the loss of Betty and how to handle caring for her younger son now that he is, effectively, an only child with no comprehension of what happened. Laura must deal with this as she is still reeling from her separation from David, who has since fathered a child with his new wife.

I struggle writing reviews of books that leave me with conflicting feelings because I am usually conflicted about the way that the story is resolved and I never know how much I can give away on Goodreads. If it weren't for the last forty to fifty pages, this book certainly would've received a higher rating. I guess I should say that if you are the least bit spoiler wary, it's best to stop reading now and just know that I was disappointed with the conclusion of the story.

Here's the problem: the blurb on the back of the book says that the plot is about Laura's quest for revenge against the man responsible for Betty's death, but that is somewhat misleading. Laura does indeed consider revenge against Mr. A, but only briefly. This aspect of the story comes into play very late and lasts one chapter before Laura changes gears in a completely unbelievable plot twist: (view spoiler). I know that Laura is a less-than-stable character, but I can not conceive of a situation where her actions towards Mr. A have even the slightest tinge of possibility and it colors the end of the story in a way that ruined it for me. Until that point, Doughty had delicately built tension between Laura and the various people surrounding her. The emotion and the prose were gut-wrenching and I truly wanted to know what Doughty was building toward. In the end, though, the conclusion felt equal parts disingenuous and cop-out.

I can't not recommend this book, though, because it is very well written and thoughtfully structured. Just, beware. (less)

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Apr 04, 2012 Patty rated it 1 of 5 stars

This book purports to be about the revenge sought by a mother after the hit and run death of her 9 year old daughter Betty, but it read more like the memoir of the mother rather than a tale of retribution.

Laura goes back and forth in time telling of life pre and post accident; that being the defining moment in her life. She describes how she meets and falls in love with Betty's father David, his subsequent defection for a younger woman Chloe and the moment in time that breaks both Laura and Davi...more

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Mar 06, 2011 Anne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have been really blown away by this novel, it's one of those stories that you really really need to keep on reading, one of those that is almost impossible to put down, with clever twists and turns throughout the very well woven plot.

The main plotline is one that puts the fear into any parent; the unexpected and accidental death of a child. Betty is the nine-year old daughter of Laura and David, the prologue of the story is the moment that Laura realises that there are two police officers on h...more

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Nov 03, 2011 Andrienne rated it 5 of 5 stars

I just finished this book and wow, I had to bump it up another star because I'm still thinking about it. It seems like every time I get my hands on a good novel, the author turns out to be English (another favorite is Sophie Hannah). The writing is superb. I found myself going over some lines just to savor them. "We fill our lives to the top of the cup, with routine so brimming that routine is the whole fabric of life, its meat and material." (p. 224) The story is not feel-good, quite the opposi...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: recent-reads

this book has a misleading blurb on the back. laura's daughter, betty, is killed in a hit and run car accident. she and her ex-husband are devastated by the news. laura can barely keep her life together.

laura finds out the driver of the vehicle is an immigrant that lives up on the hill near the cliffs in her area. she finds him and wants to find out what he loves most to take it from him so he can suffer just as she has suffered.

but that's not the crux of the novel. we are given laura and david'...more

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Jun 09, 2011 Elaine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011

Really enjoyed the controlled menace and emotional ambiguities of this book. The tight spare writing established a chilling mood and things moved at a brisk pace through scenes both deeply shocking and domestically banal. Really creative and bold, I think -- especially the fundamental choice to leave an essential question unanswered (unless you take the narrator's answer at face value, and after spending 300 pages with her, you know better than to do that).

A book about maternal love, but more es...more

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May 08, 2012 Laura Besley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Despite the macabre topic of this book, it was an easy and good read. Not all the events took place chronologically, so it was nice to feel that as the reader you were challenged to piece the story together.

Not having dealt with anything half as traumatic as the subject matter of this book (and obviously hope never to have to) I felt that the way Laura, the main character, dealt with the events was plausible and credible. She did things that were shocking, she did things that were repulsive and...more

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Mar 20, 2012 CuteBadger rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a very dark book which looks at how a huge, tragic event changes someone's life. Laura, the narrator, divides her life into before and after the event and is profoundly altered by it. She describes in great detail what has happened to her and shows the reader her reaction to it, including some odd choices.

Laura seems to be a very real character, struggling to make sense of what has happened when there is no sense to be found. Most of the other characters seem equally real, though I found...more

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Oct 15, 2011 Niall Leonard rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: brentford-boys-book-club

Bleak, beautiful, scary and sad. A woman whose husband has left her for another loses her daughter in a road accident. It pushes her to the edge of madness and murder.

Dark and delicately told this book is deceptively addictive. At first it appears to be a study in bereavement and grief - pretty hard going for any parent - then slowly layers of tension and mystery build up, dripped in subtly like poison to the ear, until you're turning pages desperately to find out what happens in the end. Not a...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Ann Douglas rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2011, novel, reviewed, fiction

I came across this book by chance and was immediately captivated by the focus of the book: a mother's grief after the death of her daughter. But the book is about so much more than that: it explores her complicated relationship with her daughter's father, class and racial tensions in a small town, motherhood and guilt, relationships and guilt, and the choices we make when impossible circumstances become our new normal. The twists and turns in this novel make it feel like a thriller: it is an emo...more

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Aug 23, 2012 Pam rated it 2 of 5 stars

The main description of what this novel was about was revenge for the death of the main character's daughter. It did not live up to that; there was very little about revenge and what there was was so convoluted I wasn't sure if it was even suppose to be revenge.
I didn't become very interested until almost a third of the way into it and just about the time I thought it might pick up, it went downhill again. I figured out the main mystery about that time, long before the main character did, and so...more

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Aug 20, 2012 William Cunion rated it 5 of 5 stars

Pain and suffering are inevitable in life. Some people have a little, some have a lot, and then there is Laura, the first-person protagonist of this incredible story. Tough to review this one - even a bare summary of the plot would make it seem impossible that it could be good. Further, it takes a good 100 pages to set up the main events, and the writing is almost too descriptive at times - sometimes good writing can get in the way of a good story. Yet for me, it is still worth five stars. I th...more

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May 06, 2012 Allison Long rated it 4 of 5 stars

At the 2011 Cuirt International Literary Festival, Louise Doughty read from her upcoming novel, 'Whatever You Love'. I enjoyed it, but wasn't sure I wanted to read the book. Besides, I'm notoriously bad about remembering books I promise myself to read (another reason to love Goodreads, never forget a book again!). Cue to a year later and I'm back in the States at my local library, looking at new releases. There it was and I missed Galway so suddenly, I had to read the book immediately because it...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Eileen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Mesmerizing! Perfect for the long plane ride! It's very well written and I dreaded coming to the end! It is the story of a mother driven somewhat mad by the death of her child in a hit and run accident. Initially, she is determined to seek retribution at any cost. The writing flows beautifully, and I found myself hooked from the first page. Louise Doughty varies the tense in such a way as to keep the reader slightly off balance. One is given brief glimpses of the little girl, and snippets of her...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Cyndy rated it 3 of 5 stars

I have mixed feelings about this novel. At times the writer is so convincing in her portrayal of a grieving mother, that you feel the hurt yourself. Then the pain becomes unrealistic. There's a sex scene with the man who killed her daughter that's just so unbelievable that I wanted to stop reading the book. I was only about 50 pages to the end though so I kept on. I could understand almost every form this woman's grief took, except that one. The author lost me at that point. I know that her cont...more

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Apr 23, 2011 Elaine Cristina rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: work

I can't deny that Louise Doughty is a talented writer, but I can't deal with this sort of book either. The only reason I finished it is because it was a work assingment, otherwise I would have quit by page 80.

Don't get me wrong, if you enjoy anguish-filled thrillers this is what you wish to find every time you walk into a bookshop. But I´m not that kind of person.

Although this plotline reflects what, unfortunately, many mothers have been through, it does not leave any room for hope. I believe...more

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May 15, 2012 Sally rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Vacation read. A woman tells the story of her daughter's death in a hit and run accident, interspersed with the story of her marriage and subsequent divorce. Her husband is a heel and leaves her for another woman. Yet another story where people elevate sex to an exalted level of intercourse (no pun intended) and get mixed-up about what a relationship is meant to look like. Here is a closing bit of this confused "wisdom": "What is this that we feel for each other now if not love? Love built on pa...more

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Apr 20, 2011 Buried In Print rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: orange-prize, read-in-2011

Readers fall hard into Louise Doughty’s sixth novel. The emotional intensity in Whatever You Love is pervasive: even when the root of that intensity is character rather than plot, the drive to turn the pages is consistent.

The first sentence on the cover flap gives away one aspect of that emotional intensity and, to be fair, readers would have learned of this tragedy within the novel’s opening pages anyhow: Laura’s nine-year-old daughter, Betty, has been killed. She has been struck by a car while...more

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Apr 25, 2013 Reader28 rated it 3 of 5 stars

There are a few things I liked about this book. The writing style was very good and engaging. There were elements in the book that I felt were raw and honest. The protagonist's response to certain events felt genuine and I could connect to what she was feeling. There came a point in the book however when it started to fall apart. How she initially went about getting her revenge was a little hard for me to get my head round, after all she is a mother, but then her subsequent dealings with Mr A is...more

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Oct 11, 2012 Janet rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have very mixed feelings about this book which starts with 2 policemen coming to the door to tell Laura that her nine year daughter has been killed crossing the road. (This is not a spoiler as this information is on the cover). Laura's grief is convincingly portrayed and until about three quarters of the way through the book I was loving it and couldn't put it down. However, I didn't find the plot twist at that point in the book at all realistic. In fact, I thought it was totally incredible. I...more

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Louise Doughty is a novelist, playwright and critic. She is the author of five novels; CRAZY PAVING, DANCE WITH ME, HONEY-DEW, FIRES IN THE DARK and STONE CRADLE, and one work of non-fiction A NOVEL IN A YEAR. She has also written five plays for radio. She has worked widely as a critic and broadcaster in the UK, where she lives, and was a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction.

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