There’s no escaping the past
‘The Split’ is an exciting, yet quite complicated thriller which, although demanding of concentration, is thoroughly worth the time invested.
Felicity Lloyd is desperate to escape from Freddie, a violent man currently in prison for murder, who has vowed to find her. Consequently, when she is offered a job with the British Antarctic Survey team to study glaciers on the island of South Georgia, she eagerly accepts.
Believing the remote base to be far enough away for her to be safe, Felicity is devasted when, two years later, she receives a letter from Freddie informing her of his release from prison. Worse still, not only does he know where she is, but he is now on his way to the island and due to arrive any day. Realising she can never run far enough, Felicity is left with little option but to take refuge on the glacier she knows so well, and hope Freddie is ill equipped to follow her.
This dilemma is the dramatic opening scenario for Sharon Bolton’s intense and original thriller, ‘The Split’. Divided into four parts, the novel centres around a young woman’s struggle to cope with the far-reaching consequences of a childhood trauma, and the determination of her therapist, Dr Joe Grant, to help her face up to the devastating truth buried deep within her psyche.
While the first part of the novel sets the scene for the explosive climax that is to come, the second part goes back two years to explore the gradual decline in Felicity’s state of mind, and the reason why she chooses to ignore her therapist’s advice and take such a drastic action. Add to this a series of murders among the homeless community of Cambridge and a complicated mystery soon begins to unfold, with Felicity at the centre of it all. Having eventually discovered the shocking truth about the enigmatic Felicity Lloyd in part three, by the time the reader arrives at part four, the tension is sky high as the revelations keep coming, making for a thrilling and clever finale. It is a reading experience not to be missed.
Felicity Lloyd is desperate to escape from Freddie, a violent man currently in prison for murder, who has vowed to find her. Consequently, when she is offered a job with the British Antarctic Survey team to study glaciers on the island of South Georgia, she eagerly accepts.
Believing the remote base to be far enough away for her to be safe, Felicity is devasted when, two years later, she receives a letter from Freddie informing her of his release from prison. Worse still, not only does he know where she is, but he is now on his way to the island and due to arrive any day. Realising she can never run far enough, Felicity is left with little option but to take refuge on the glacier she knows so well, and hope Freddie is ill equipped to follow her.
This dilemma is the dramatic opening scenario for Sharon Bolton’s intense and original thriller, ‘The Split’. Divided into four parts, the novel centres around a young woman’s struggle to cope with the far-reaching consequences of a childhood trauma, and the determination of her therapist, Dr Joe Grant, to help her face up to the devastating truth buried deep within her psyche.
While the first part of the novel sets the scene for the explosive climax that is to come, the second part goes back two years to explore the gradual decline in Felicity’s state of mind, and the reason why she chooses to ignore her therapist’s advice and take such a drastic action. Add to this a series of murders among the homeless community of Cambridge and a complicated mystery soon begins to unfold, with Felicity at the centre of it all. Having eventually discovered the shocking truth about the enigmatic Felicity Lloyd in part three, by the time the reader arrives at part four, the tension is sky high as the revelations keep coming, making for a thrilling and clever finale. It is a reading experience not to be missed.
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