Fault Lines - Nancy Huston

I was hugely disappointed by this book. It was well written and suspense is created really well, but the ending is such a let-down. Fault Lines follows four generations children from the same family backwards in time. Each quarter of the novel is narrated by a different six-year-old. The idea is the unexplained behaviour of the last child to tell their story- so the first one on a time line. The book begins in California, with a boy named Sol who is so very disturbing and it's at a level that strains credibility, it's just too far-fetched. I mean, he's six and he masturbates to Internet footage from images of tortured Iraqi soldiers. Sol ...  Read the complete review

This was the last book I read for my monthly book group, and I thought I would share my thoughts on it. Due to a library hiccup, I had to go out and buy a copy just a few days before we met. I bought it in paperback from Waterstones for £7.99, but you can definately get it online cheaper. A few interesting facts about Nancy Huston. She is Canadian, but not French Canadian. She moved to Paris many years ago, and now writes her novels in French and English, effectively translating her own work. Fault Lines is the story of four children from the same family, going back through time to World War II. We start wth Sol, go to his father Randall, his mother ...  Read the complete review