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A review by andrew61
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson
4.0
I picked up this book after hearing the author discussed on the backlisted podcast and think I have now found a writer that I am looking forward to exploring if this uniquely interesting and compelling novel is typical of his storytelling.
We are introduced to Katherine as an embryo frozen in a flask eight years before her birth. Fast forward to K at 19,living in Rome, and about to go to university in Oxford. Her father is a reporter who in travelling the world neglects his daughter who is grieving from the recent death of her mother. K disappears, throwing her phone in the river and goes on a trip from Berlin , to Moscow, and eventually to a remote town on the Arctic circle.
In her adventures she is enigmatic as she establishes short relationships and reflects on her loss, her life, and the impact of having to wait to be born.
Imaginative and well written this was a book which I raced through but also didn't want to end.
We are introduced to Katherine as an embryo frozen in a flask eight years before her birth. Fast forward to K at 19,living in Rome, and about to go to university in Oxford. Her father is a reporter who in travelling the world neglects his daughter who is grieving from the recent death of her mother. K disappears, throwing her phone in the river and goes on a trip from Berlin , to Moscow, and eventually to a remote town on the Arctic circle.
In her adventures she is enigmatic as she establishes short relationships and reflects on her loss, her life, and the impact of having to wait to be born.
Imaginative and well written this was a book which I raced through but also didn't want to end.