Review: LOVE AND BETRAYAL
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
This extremely well-written novel is centred around the theme of love and betrayal. We follow the action from the viewpoint of Dominic; we meet his partner Claire and his friends, in particular Sully; and we also meet his brother Spencer and Spencer's wife, Emily. Consequently, we voyage back at times to memories and traumas of the past, in particular the family betrayals and jealousies of childhood. We also meet Mangan, the loutish bully of Dominic's past whom he bumps into now in the form of his new boss. Dominic knows of Mangan's past and the incident Mangan has managed to hide from his wife and her rich father, and there then follows a tautly-described portrayal of the violent tensions and murderous intentions which evolve from that situation. At the same time we follow the equally tellingly-observed travails and vicissitudes of the domestic conflicts between Dominic and Claire, and Spencer and Emily, and indeed between Dominic and his brother's alluring wife...This novel is a brilliant fusion of different threads: a tense 'potboiler' that will keep you on the edge of your seat; an examination of the psychological pressures of domestic life, with its loves, dissatisfactions and infidelities; and the almost Biblical dimension, within the author's examination of family love and betrayal, added by the dominant theme of brotherly rivalry, rejection and love that casts its net over the lives of the story's main protagonists. Don't miss out on this tale.