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I picked this one up after reading the blurbs on front and back. I enjoyed the book, but have to say that it's nothing like what I expected from the blurbs. I actually wonder if the blurb-er read the book at all, or only a brief summary? Anyway. This is a quiet book, well-written, keenly observes the relationships between family, friends, strangers.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are at it again, this time solving a murder that's close to home. As enjoyable as ever, and it's cool to see a new-ish side of Joyce.

After reading one of these anthologies, I liked it so much I decided to order another - this one - and while I'm less than half way through, I can already say that the stories are as good as I had hoped. Really enjoying this book (and the whole series of anthologies).

I'm really enjoying this (almost finished) - I like the narrator and the complexity of it. In a way it is a book about stories and how we tell them, and how we use them to make sense of ourselves / the world. It's also about a writer who keeps not writing the important novel she has been meaning (and paid) to write while real life happens around her, and about relationships of various kinds - friendships, family, lovers / partners, etc. I'll be looking for more books by Scarlett Thomas for sure.