Anyone read 'The Other Half Lives' by Sophie Hannah

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What a dull book. I honestly don't think I can give it my all. If anyone has read it, would you care to give me a quick resume from beginning to end. Thanks

I've read Lasting Damage, and that was quite a gripping story but did take quite a while to get going.

I lost the will to live during that book, OP. I started out quite liking Sophie Hannah but good heavens, 'The Other Half Lives' is dreadful. Seriously, don't even start with the plot. It's not worth unravelling.

ok, charity shop it is then!

Yes I started this - iirc the premise was that someone had admitted to mudering a woman who wasn't actually dead. And in the book various characters ask themselves this question over and over again, with increasing hysteria...and I'm thinking -I know that can we get on with the plot? I think I was about a third of the way through and nothing was actually happening and so I gave up.

Little Face is better (although not perfect) and I bought a short story collection by her - the 1st story was brilliant, the rest dissapointing. So IMO she's a bit hit and miss.

Hurting Distance was good although quite chilling and disturbing; not the sort of crime book I'd want an early-teen to be reading. Little Face was also quite good, but I think the quality of her writing is deteriorating now sadly.

I met SH with her mum, Adele Geras (the children's author) at an author event a few years ago. Both of them lovely engaging women, and Sophie spoke interestingly about the creepy stalkerish boyfriend who was the inspiration behind one of her books.