Sometimes being thrown into the middle of things ratchets up the tension - but here, in a novel where the body isn't discovered for hundreds of pages, it feels off-kilter.īook Reviews A Quiet Purpose Propels Pelecanos' Thriller 'The Man Who Came Uptown' Very few of the characters completely gel, either through description or in the reader's head. If you think all that went by quickly here, imagine what it's like to have all of this occur in the first third of the book. Toby's cousins Susanna and Leon also treat Ivy House as a second home, with Susanna's husband and young children as well as Leon's current boyfriend rounding out the menagerie. The survivor of a sad family of origin, she admires the way Toby's uncle cares for his brothers and their wives as well as their children. When Uncle Hugo suggests Toby spend his convalescence at Ivy House, his girlfriend Melissa is thrilled.
Toby Hennessy - star of Tana French's new standalone novel The Witch Elm - is a man in his late twenties who has a loving girlfriend, a good job, excellent friends, and a close-knit family that often congregates at Ivy House, once the home of his grandparents and now inhabited solely by his bachelor Uncle Hugo.īut before we meet Toby, he's been violently assaulted in his apartment, left for dead, and awoken in the hospital to discover that he'll not only need a few weeks to recuperate, but he'll suffer from crippling PTSD. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Witch Elm Author Tana French
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