Katie is displaced from the group as ‘the single one’ - she has a separate seat on the train and a smaller cabin-for-one once arriving at the lodge. There are some tensions that are noticeable instantly. This style of writing creates an immediate sense of manic grappling with information which continues throughout the novel as readers learn more about the characters - specifically what drives them to the point where someone has been killed. 11 friends, who haven’t seen each other in the best part of a year, thrown together at a remote lodge at Loch Corrin, are bound to have some tales to unwind and some thoughts in the moment that will need explaining. This works hard to enrich the story by throwing readers into the minds of these characters straight away. There is a deliberate back and forth structure that shifts between past and present, as well as character perspective. Lucy Foley has contructed an intricate novel within which the narrative strands are consistently crossing over and changing hands.
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