A review by jgwc54e5
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

4.0

A portrait of a descent into madness of a couple after a murder. It’s really a horror story about horrible people doing horrible things. The atmosphere is claustrophobic and Zola’s description of the corpse as it haunts the guilty couple is vivid, you can almost smell it! It’s a strange book as none of the characters are really interesting people but the book is hard to put down nonetheless.