![]() ![]() Kate’s husband, John, a Melbourne physician, lies about attending a medical conference in London and turns up dead with his throat cut on Belport. He has inexplicably become secretive and irritable. Abby’s husband, Ray, runs a struggling business maintaining vacation homes. ![]() Both women struggle to understand their husbands’ recent odd behaviors. The extroverted Abby Gilpin represents the servant class living year-round on Belport Island, while the more remote Kate Keddie is from the privileged vacationer class. ![]() ![]() This is otherwise a frank story about two related murders that occur decades apart on a vacation island off the coast of Australia.The narrative employs the perspectives of two women in alternating chapters. White uses a remarkable “What was that?” plot twist in this thriller to elevate it well above its commonplace themes of the destructiveness of hidden family secrets and the price of misguided family loyalty. ![]()
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