This book blends three seemly disparate female narratives and keeps the reader guessing.till the very end. In WW1 London, Kitty is a German immigrant in a relationship with Gillian, who finds a new persona to save her own. In a German prisoner of war camp, Miriam assists a professor recording the dialects of captured British soldiers. And in modern day Cornwall, recently widowed artist Kitty has left London after the death of her husband. She begins work on a new commission for a deck of tarot cards.
As I say, disparate. Costello blends the three narratives together skilfully and keeps the reader guessing till the very end. To say so much would ruin the rich surprises therein, but let’s just say that all families have their secrets… even fictional ones. And pay attention!
It’s part social history, part linguistic text, part family history and is an eminently readable book. I also think that it’’s one of those books, in an age where everything you read gets streamed it will be available on tv soon. It’s a page turner with depth, weight and optimism. It’s published on 29th February and my thanks go to Penguin books for a preview copy.
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