T.R. Richmond
Hardcover | Pages: 380 pages Rating: 3.01 | 2344 Users | 464 Reviews
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| Title | : | What She Left |
| Author | : | T.R. Richmond |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 380 pages |
| Published | : | April 23rd 2015 by Michael Joseph (first published 2015) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Mystery Thriller |
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Gone doesn't mean forgotten.When Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples were felt in the news, on the internet, and in the hearts of those who knew her best.
But the person who knows her most intimately isn't family or a friend. Dr Jeremy Cook is an academic whose life has become about piecing together Alice's existence in all its flawed and truthful reality.
For Cooke, faithfully recreating Alice's life - through her diaries, emails and anything using her voice - is all-consuming. He does not know how deep his search will take him, or the shocking nature of what he will uncover...
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| Original Title: | What She Left |
| ISBN: | 0718179366 (ISBN13: 9780718179366) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.01 From 2344 Users | 464 ReviewsDiscuss Based On Books What She Left
When I give a low rating to a book that some of my GR friends loved I fear appearing an awkward & nit-picking churl (nits of course being something youd expect churls to have a lot of) or an old pedant, especially when the nits involve health-care or sailing. But its even more discomforting when I want to promote a book to field-marshal status that some of my discerning friends gave but a star or two @ most. But thats my response to What She Left. Some Amazon Kindle books have this greatI LOVED this wonderful book - the assembling of a life via fragments, traces left behind. The writing is so very beautiful, and each voice unique, the author getting each narrator's gender, youthful slang, the quirks and abbreviations of twitter and text messaging absolutely right. I even warmed to Old Cookie despite everything. Authentic, clever, original.
I almost put this book down several times and struggled with it on MANY levels. So Ill be blunt. 1. Quite frankly Alices life wasnt all that interesting. 2. Given the first point, Professor Cookes interest in Alices life is incredibly creepy. His interest becomes obsessive and its almost difficult to know how much of his narrative to believe given the way he justifies his interest. As for their relationship, I would have preferred suppositions about Alices parentage to be true. 3. The book jumps
A special thank you to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. T. R. Richmond delivers a clever contemporary psychological suspense, WHAT SHE LEFT, centered around social medialove, obsession, and revenge. What happened to Alice Salmon? A mysterious, dark, and intriguing debut. Alice Salmon is a journalist. Twenty- five years old, her body is found washed up on the riverbank in Southampton, south of Londoncreating a media frenzy. A music fan, bookworm,
This was a strange read. Interesting. But strange nonetheless. The entire book is told through news articles, tweets, texts, voicemails, and letters. There is absolutely no narrator due to us only getting this story through ad hoc modes of media. The, I guess you call him, MC (Old Cookie) is an anthropology professor who makes it his goal to recreate Alice's life before her death, and unearth previously unknown facts and secrets about her and those close to her. (this is not a spoiler, it is the
Alice Salmon, a budding journalist, went clubbing with three friends one cold February night and died alone by drowning in the River Dane in Southampton. Her demise went unseen by anyone who would admit to it, and ironically unobserved by close circuit cameras.Alice was someone I would have liked to have met. Obsessed with truth, quotations, literature, and love. She drank to excess and loved to excess. She suffered from episodes of depression. She was over-analytical, loved Jane Austen, had
This book opens with the discovery of the body of Alice Salmon, a 25 year old journalist. The police treat her death as suspicious, not ruling out suicide, murder or accidental death. The narrator, a professor at the Southampton university that she attended, decides to reconstruct her life from her online posts, text messages, photos, friends posts, diary entries, etc. The book has a slow start and is somewhat difficult to follow, as it switches back and forth between the various entries and
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