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Wednesday November 22, 2006

Safely to the Grave - Margaret Yorke

In my efforts to find new authors to read I am trying some of my wife's books. This time it is Margaret Yorke. The book has a rather nasty person called Mick Harvey who likes to frighten people. As he gets older the acts he does become more extreme and after a tustle with another car where he inflicts a bit of road rage things get very nasty indeed. A complaint is made against him and he decides to get his own back on the occupants of the other car. The book is quite good in that it has lots of other details about all charecters in the book , their backgrounds and so on. I think it needs this because the raw hate this guy reveals in the book would be too much to bear on its own.

Mick has a wife and two kids and her life is made a misery thanks to him but he is fond of his kids especially Cliffie his son. The book is convincing - the sad bit about it is out there in the world are many folks who act like Mick which is very depressing. The only thing I would say is it would be really interesting to know more about how he turned into someone like this that is perhaps the difference between Margaret Yorke and Barbara Vine the latter would expose more of the physiological background to why this person became a bad lot. Not a bad read though.

( Nov 22 2006, 12:00:01 AM PST ) Permalink