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The Earthquake Bird
Susanna Jones
Editions
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Publisher |
ISBN Number |
Price |
Buy |
| hbk |
Picador |
0330485016 |
£12.99 |
n/a | | pbk |
Picador |
0330485024 |
£6.99 |
n/a |
Review
 I do not read many thrillers, but a customer insisted that I read this one, and he was right – it is remarkable. It is also strange, and what makes it so is the narrator. Lucy Fly is an English girl of about thirty who lives in Japan. She has been arrested after the dismembered body of an English girl has washed up in Tokyo Bay, and during her interrogation we gather that she supports herself by doing technical translations, and believes herself to be more or less invulnerable to most human emotions. She also believes that she has a baleful influence on those close to her – they seem to die rather too frequently… But her obsession with her boyfriend is unsettling, as is her ambivalent attitude towards the other English girl. It is a creepy and compelling tale, adroitly told. - review by Johnny de Falbe
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