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A review by thechemicaldetective
Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
5.0
Oh, what a gorgeous book. I was swept away, my curiosity piqued, my heart strings tugged and I both wanted to race through and to never finish. The set up - a nanny interviewed by police trying to find her missing charge, 8 year old Felicity - put me in mind of Tabucchi's Pereira Maintains, one of my all time favourite books - and is the perfect scaffolding for some utterly delicious writing.
'Although he was technically standing still, everything about him seemed to be twitching, like a time-lapse film of a growing plant.'
Forms of proof - Reducto ad absurdam - has never been so beautifully explained.
I will now have to read the full back catalogue.
'Although he was technically standing still, everything about him seemed to be twitching, like a time-lapse film of a growing plant.'
Forms of proof - Reducto ad absurdam - has never been so beautifully explained.
I will now have to read the full back catalogue.