Review: Forget the sleeping pill: read this book instead.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
Yvette certainly has time on her hands! A box is delivered to her doorstep, but it is for a peculiar neighbour of hers. She (a grown woman, married and with children) is frightened of Mona, her neighbour, but summons up the courage to walk round the block - quite an exploit, apparently - and give her the box. Let me fast forward a little, before you fall asleep. Mona manages to entice Yvette into her house and proceeds - over an enormous length of time - to tell Yvette her life story. Just let me say there is a zealot of an Arab involved, as well as a hugely improbable chase off to Mexico -and back, somehow. I must have skipped a few dozen pages as this simply did not make sense - and then the story tumbles over itself to get to the end. Yvette puts her family to no end of discomfort and, in the end, actual danger, thanks to her involvement with Mona and another character who puts in appearance for no good reason, as far as I can see, but is given long pages and a lot of attention. Read this and you'll get a good night's sleep.