A review by opal360
Island Song by Madeleine Bunting

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

2.75

I found this novel slow and plodding, and not as strong as the writer's non-fiction work - for instance, Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture Is Ruling Our Lives or The Plot: A Biography Of An English Acre. There were some lovely descriptions of Guernsey and a mystery that intrigued me but it never quite came together. The dialogue wasn't very lifelike and I was disappointed that she left some parts of the WW2 story pretty hazy - you got the basics of who did what to whom but not so much of the how or why. Given that much of the present-day story was about the research process I think she led the reader to expect that there would be more answers forthcoming than there actually were.