- This is a wonderful holiday read, with delightful characters and plenty of 'rural noir'. There's provincial ignorance and prejudice in spades, but also love, loyalty and friendship.
- Set in coastal North Carolina in the 1950's and 60's there's no shortage of racism, sexism and middle class white privilege.
- It's a coming-of-age novel, but a mature one. People are either good or bad, but the bad ones are ugly in the extreme. The domestic violence and rape episodes are raw and upsetting.
- The book is exceptionally well written and paced, the final chapters covering the murder trial in particular.
- And the twist at the end is very satisfying indeed. No wonder this novel has been a global best seller.
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