Review: Started well, but collapsed early on.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 14, 2013
This novel should have been excellent - the plot was there - a woman making dinner goes to call her husband to the table and he has vanished from the lounge room. The following 17 years (far too many, IMO, 10 would have been acceptable) are spent with her living life in a mediocre way, seemingly unable to take positive steps to sort things out, in spite of her friend urging her to be more proactive. The constant shifting to the past and back to the present interrupts continuity.I figured out the answer to the mystery fairly early in the piece, but had to struggle to finish the book. Most of the time I wanted to beat the heroine over the head with my kindle because of her inertia. How the bloke ever saw anything in her to begin with, I'll never know because she appeared to be completely devoid of personality.The author could have done so much more with this plot, as the potential is there - in spades.Not a book to set the world on fire.