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The burning
question is – can you stop a murder when it has already happened?
When Jen
Brotherhood, lawyer, witnesses her talented seventeen year old son Todd deliberately
knife a man she does not know right underneath her living-room window, she and
her husband Kelly, decorator, rush outside to help. The police arrive very
quickly and arrest Todd, who confesses to the murder immediately. While Kelly
is holding the bleeding victim, she is gripped by a insurmountable surge of
feeling, leaving her weak and disorientated. Why would her gentle son commit
such a heinous crime?
In the following
days and weeks, Jen begins a retrospective journey past even the birth of her
son. She learns to love her son, an emotion which she did not initially feel
during his earliest years. This is not the only salient fact she discovers –
she comes to comprehend that some events cannot be changed whereas others
reveal themselves as something other than her initial perception.
I will not spoil
the remarkable retrograde journey, but I will say that Gillian McAllister has
produced a crime novel like no other, stretching the boundaries of the genre
like a piece of plasticine in a child`s hot little hand. The question you end
up asking yourself is – could this happen to you?
5 stars
Reviewed by Liz
