Just Finished Reading: “The Little Friend” by Donna Tarrt

Donna Tarrt is a significant name amongst American writers. Recently, she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Goldfinch (2013) and the novel I have just read, The Little Friend (Bloomsbury, 2005 edition; first published 2002) won the WH Smith Literary Award in 2003.

Ms Tarrt is also from the American South—and so, too, is The Little Friend. I have never set foot in the Americas but I have read the works of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee, and knew at once that I was in the American Sou...