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Watch Me Disappear - Jill Dawson

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Manufacturer : Sceptre
Release date : 13 March 2006
ISBN-10 : 0340822988 |
British (1), English (1)

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Jill Dawson: Watch Me Disappear

Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago at Jul 22 16:19
Jill Dawson's 'Watch Me Disappear' takes as its backdrop the Cambridgeshire Fens around the time of the Soham murders, dropping references in all but name. That the narrator, Tina Humber, should be there is purely coincidental, as she's attending her brother's wedding. The current brouhaha does have an effect however, as it brings to mind the memory of an old school friend, Mandy Baker, who went missing thirty years before, never to be found. The novel follows Tina's account of events back then and while she does think regularly of Mandy, it's not about the missing girl so much as it is about the development of her own sexuality, whether it be from browsing some porno mags, reading smut in the 'News Of The World', or encounters with her first boyfriend. Events that occur between the age...Read more

Rating : 8/10