Little Face - Sophie Hannah

Reading the blurb on the back of the book, I was looking forward to reading it, and sure enough it started well. As the book progressed, however, the plot seemed to veer off in odd directions. I realise that part of the narrative was intended to confuse the reader until the end, but there were scenes in it that were never explained nor resolved. The reader was not given enough information to follow the plot and feel just one step ahead. Exceptional thrillers allow the reader to work out the plot a page or two before it happens, rather than dumping it on them out of the blue. I found the characters were sketchy, and a couple, who I perceived to be important to ...

I bought this book with no idea of what the works of Sophie Hannah had to offer, though what intrigued me was the mystery that lay behind the cover picture, which was incidentally very well chosen indeed. Often stories don't live up to the covers, though we as buyers are still pulled into buying books based on what they seem to be offering. The words upon the cover were tempting too that quoted "It's every mother's nightmare". I wanted something gripping, something that would hold my interest, and it showed promise. The Story This is a very well constructed piece of literature. The story revolves around the lives of Alice and David ...

A new novel by Sophie Hannah is cause for great celebration, at least as far as I'm concerned. I loved her three previous novels - "Cordial and Corrosive" (probably my favourite), "Gripless" and "The Superpower of Love" - and am also a big fan of her poetry. So I was absolutely delighted to get my hands on this latest novel. "Little Face" is, however, something of a departure from Sophie's previous work. It's described on the jacket as a "psychological thriller" and is clearly packaged and marketed as such, with one of those cover pictures - common to missing-child thrillers - of an empty corridor with an ...