Published: 2000, Headline Publishing Group Genre: Fiction Themes: Family, mental health, loyalty, bereavement My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤ Imagine you wrote a gripping multi-generational family story, and just as you were about to set off to the publisher with the hard-copy, the wind took your pages and scattered them all across the street. You hastily pick everything up and head to your appointment intending to put the pages in order during the cab journey, but on the way you realise: This works. Well, I'm sure that's not what happened at all, but that's what reading this book feels like. You start almost at the end, then you bounce back about twenty years, then just over the page you are back to present time in a whole new setting. The narrator can change several times within one chapter, and there are no headings to give you a steer, so there will be no skim-reading here. Maggie O'Farrell wants your full attention, and she gets it, becau...