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Reading XIV: Peter Robinson, Caedmon's Song (1990)
Kirsten has been assaulted and left for dead in a northern town, and when she awakes, she discovers that she is no longer able to have children, and probably can't have penetrative sex. With the aid of a psychotherapist, she remembers the painful trauma.
Martha is posing as a writer in Whitby, looking for someone, and when she finds him, she will kill him. If she finds the right person.
Well, it doesn't take a mastermind to guess that the two threads are connected, and it's pretty apparent early on what the connection is.
Robinson takes a break from the Banks novels - and proves he is no Patricia Highsmith. It needed to be tenser, sharper, darker. I'm not convinced he can write women. This version is a later edition, slightly tinkered with in about 2003. I don't see the point, myself. Let the original speak.
That's the boxset of Robinson finished; onto a Gregory Maguire.
Kirsten has been assaulted and left for dead in a northern town, and when she awakes, she discovers that she is no longer able to have children, and probably can't have penetrative sex. With the aid of a psychotherapist, she remembers the painful trauma.
Martha is posing as a writer in Whitby, looking for someone, and when she finds him, she will kill him. If she finds the right person.
Well, it doesn't take a mastermind to guess that the two threads are connected, and it's pretty apparent early on what the connection is.
Robinson takes a break from the Banks novels - and proves he is no Patricia Highsmith. It needed to be tenser, sharper, darker. I'm not convinced he can write women. This version is a later edition, slightly tinkered with in about 2003. I don't see the point, myself. Let the original speak.
That's the boxset of Robinson finished; onto a Gregory Maguire.
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