A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

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I read the author's previous book, and while it was a reasonably enjoyable read, I thought it was slow going, with an ending that left me confused.

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She can not get this incident out of her head and starts to investigate herself, even though this will put her own life at risk. A Double Life is not for me but I think that readers who enjoy a more character driven read will enjoy it.

On her wedding night, awaiting Grandcourt’s arrival in the bedroom, she sees herself repeated ad infinitum in glass panels, becoming part of, as Carlisle puts it, “a long procession of virgin brides who have gone before and will follow after across the marital threshold”.

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It bears a quote from Scenes of Clerical Life: “The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to reverence. Perhaps it was for the best that Eliot’s most lovably untamed heroine, Maggie Tulliver of The Mill on the Floss, turns down two suitors and then drowns in a flood instead of joining that procession. My fondest memories of it, and this will sound a bit strange to people if they know their Never Ending Tour stuff, is 1995.The whole double life is ridiculous and the book is lots of build up to about 3 action points so it feels mean. So when she claims to have seen what appears to be a violent attack on a woman on her way home from a drug-fuelled squat party scepticism abounds, but Isobel is determined to uncover just what she stumbled upon.