catdad77a45 's review for:

Siracusa by Delia Ephron

4.0

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After a couple of months of heavy duty literary fiction (Booker nominees, Deborah Levy's entire oeuvre, etc.) I really wanted to read something a bit light and 'easy'. Ephron's book filled the bill, and was surprisingly engaging. An extra point for doing one of the most difficult things to pull off very well - having multiple narrators (in this case, the four main adult protagonists), and actually making each of them have a distinct style (as opposed to say 'Girl on the Train', in which the three narrators all sound exactly the same!). Also for having one of the most creepy amoral child characters since Rhoda Penmark ('The Bad Seed').