The Girl in the Picture

It was a great book my daughter loved it and said it has you on the edge of your seat. Very appropriate age for a 13 year old.

This is a fantasic book. I absolutely love it. Well and matter of factly written. A dive into the post war demi monde told without any self pity despite the eye raising picaresque adventures, dodgy lovers and constant lack of funds. What a plucky narrator! I am three quarters of the way through and she is still only eighteen!

The way the author switches back and forth between point of view and time makes the mystery and romance of this story wonderfully compelling. In one chapter we get the point of view of the jilted lover from the past, and in the next chapter, we get the point of view of the new love interest in the present. And we switch back and forth as we unravel the mystery of the murder and the beginnings of the romance. And then just when the reader gets to a climatic point in the story, the author switches up the point of view to the other character, and the mystery and the romance continue to delight the reader even more. I loved this story.

My granddaughter loved this book. She read it in one day.

Read it with my thirdteen year old daughter.