The narrative alternates between Annie and Henrietta’s viewpoints, and after a sluggish start, the women become a sympathetic double act, their fledgling bond generating its own dynamism. Think Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant or Bonnie Garmus’s Elizabeth Zott but without the plausibility – at least initially. A gauche, obsessively methodical missionary’s daughter, Henrietta lives alone with her dyspeptic rescue mutt Dave and descends from a long line of oddball literary heroines. Not so 32-year-old Henrietta, who’s tasked with coaxing Annie’s life story out of her. Afterwards, Annie fell into the grip of an abusive husband, whose subsequent death she’s cagey about.įond of zany vintage clothing and sweet treats, she’s an easy character to spend time with all the same. A pile of Kath’s clothes left beside the Grand Union Canal led police to conclude she’d drowned herself. She turns out to have had a vibrant younger sister who vanished on 21 December 1974, aged 18. Henrietta lives alone with her dyspeptic rescue mutt Dave and descends from a long line of oddball literary heroines
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