A review by katieinca
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

4.0

I might not have read this if I'd paid more attention to what it was about - among other things, parents losing children. (I bought it because it's set in Cambridge and well-reviewed, and I was headed there on vacation.) But I'm so glad I did. The mothers and fathers and sisters in this book are so ...human. Flawed, in very recognizable ways. I don't think a male author could have written them. The women for sure, but maybe not the men, either. It's full of mourning for women and girls who disappear, temporarily or forever, and the fact that we live in a world where that's somehow normal, but it doesn't give in to despair.