![]() ![]() A harrowing event whose after-effects loom very largely on the family, his sister Harriet – who was a baby at the time of his death – takes it upon herself to track down his killers. ![]() And yet, enticed by the book’s beautifully illustrated Bloomsbury Classics cover, captivating blurb, and the knowledge that I’d rated both of Donna Tartt’s previous novels highly (The Goldfinch so much so that I missed by tube station by nine stops while reading it), I left with The Little Friend in tow.Ī tale that balances on the periphery of gothic horror, murder mystery, literary fiction and thriller, The Little Friends is a story of the South, that begins with the death of twelve year-old Robin, who is found murdered in his back garden – hanging from a tree – on Mother’s Day. ![]() Choosing a tome from one of their endless literary offerings is never an easy task, and had I thought about it sensibly beforehand, I probably wouldn’t have opted for a 700-page book given the challenge I had recently set myself to read ten books per month in 2019. Not wanting to waste valuable beach time or an hour’s flight back to Sydney, I left the beach to peruse the shelves of my favourite book shop in Byron, The Book Room. I was there for just over three days, and had figured that two books would suffice, but alas, by the penultimate afternoon I had finished both books. ![]() I bought The Little Friend by Donna Tartt while on a long weekend in Byron Bay. ![]()
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