Thursday October 26, 2006

Coast is back!

The BBC series coast is back with a new series. It promises to be as good as the first series this time visiting many new places around the UK coast.

Going Wrong - Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell - and her alternative name she writes under is a favourite in our house. I re-read Going Wrong the other day. It is about a man Guy Curren who had a short relationship with Leonora and is having trouble letting go. In fact he is obsessed with her and keeps trying to kickstart the relationship again. For some reason which escapes me she has always had lunch with him on Saturday where they meet. He also tries to speak to her everyday. Of course she now has a new man in her life and in fact Guy has a girlfriend but not the one he wants. Matters come to a head when she moves into her boyfriend's flat and they are engaged to become married. Guy who shall we say has a less than clean history - he sold drugs etc now plans how he can reclaim Leonora back by eliminating the person or persons who he feels have turned her against him.

He has criminal friends who can do this for him. Meanwhile he becomes more frantic in his attempts to derail Leonora's relationship and takes matters in his own hands in a very dramatic climax to the story. The final chapter sees the police catching up with him but I will leave you to read the story in full to see what he is arrested for. For me this girl does not sound like his type she is a bit like a tree hugger type person. There is a great line in the story where he asks his model girlfriend Celeste about how she feels about Guy meeting Leonora weekly and their sporadic telephone calls. She clearly is not fazed or threatend by these meetings/phone calls she says Leonora is hardly any competition to her she thinks. Alas she ends up being very wrong.. Good book.