A Double Life

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Spin the revolving stage and we meet Claire, a physician, who has a parallel background to the Lord Lucan unsavory story. Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. Of Dylan, Heylin assumes: “He’d still prefer the immortality of not dying to that of his work living on after him, but he knows f’sure that the sands of time are running out. Consequently it's not quite as glitzy and glamorous as any of those other stories mentioned, but it gives us a protagonist who's easy to relate to and root for. I flew through these pages in just a day due to the pacy writing style and the 'passing of the baton' between Gabriella and Isobel for who had the narrative on a chapter.

Trying to figure out how to introduce Canadian Kevin Chong’s ferociously courageous new novel, The Double Life of Benson Yu, feels problematic.The middle-aged Benson (known as Yu to presumably avoid confusion) is an alcoholic who wants to die, even though he has successfully started a family.

Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family's townhouse. But when he becomes the prime suspect in a horrific attack on Claire’s mother – a pretty little thing who married into the elite ranks of society and dared escape her gilded cage – fate and privilege collide, and a scandal erupts. Flynn Berry’s first novel was like stepping into an inviting pool that seemed shallow, finding yourself over your head, and then taking pleasure in submersion. It really is a sensational story packed full of twists and written in such a masterful way that Philby deserves a round of applause for it. There is the unpredictable recording process, with Dylan often including on his albums the worst takes and leaving off the best songs altogether.She is a doctor now who spends her spare time raking the internet for clues and stalking her father’s privileged childhood friends, hoping for any evidence that they might know where he is and give him away.