Tuesday 24 March 2020

Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean



“Year after year a fresh crop of cells emerged, excisions followed and he lived. The knife-and-forking of his body seemed to give a perverse impetus to his will to survive.”


Thoroughly enjoyed this tale of a holiday that isn't quite what its cracked up to be. An old couple is sent to an exclusive resort by their children for a much needed break and yet things aren't quite what they seem. A dying man and his wife's holiday is not the delightful last hurrah it could be. 
An attempted rape is entirely not what it seems and all around an air of deceipt and evasion acts in stark contrast to the beautiful surrounds.

Personally I found the writing engaging and in between the sensation of the summer sun, I could feel that sense that one has sometimes of a holiday as a relationship solution that never delivers. I was transported to my own recent travels with the former source of woe and the way that even the delights of travel can be tainted by the wrong company. The author excruciatingly realises that strange juxtaposition of confinement and freedom that a resort can create.


5 out of 5 : right now I wish I was isolated somewhere tropical.

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