We All Have Our Secrets: A twisty, page-turning summer drama

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This isn’t the first time the Daniel Craig era has turned to the pillars of French music for peak dramatic effect.

We All Have Our Secrets: A twisty, page-turning summer drama

To me this is always the sign of a great read, I like to be kept guessing and wondering whether I will figure out what is really going on.It takes the ugliest moments in one’s life and finds a sort of brilliance or irony in absolute sorrow. Past, present and future are brought together in an engaging narrative that sustains interest to the last word. I was hooked right from the start, as Emily, a busy midwife, was coping with her shift and her love life until it all started to unravel.

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Humour combined with glamour can be a powerful and cathartic means of coping with tragedy and loss, and has been an empowering, yet jarring, feature of the sort of ‘gay male’ or queer cultures I mentioned earlier. The story is told in five parts, parts one and three are from the point of view of Emily, two and three are from Francoise point of view and part five is alternate chapters from each of them. My thanks to the author, Penguin General UK and Netgalley for the digital ARC of this book, which I have reviewed voluntarily and honestly. I have read other books by this author and have enjoyed them immensely, this book left me feeling exactly the same.So far so good, it’s shaping up well and then we get the Françoise perspective and that’s when it starts to drift away from the very strong first half.