Gallowstree Lane - Kate London

'Authentic' is a word that keeps recurring with Kate London's novels. It can be measured in the way nothing is easy, straightforward and how uncomfortable it all is, living. Every decision, every trying to do what is the best comes with the potential for damage and for getting it wrong. It is this dilemma that so convincingly provides the tension, the absorption, the insistence of the progression of this third in the series tale. And leaves the reader near tears. A second read, after an interval long enough for me to forget how things turned out, just as affecting. When is the next one due?'

'When is the next one due?' 

Unfortunately there's seems to be no answer to that. At the end of this third re-read - and once again my poor memory allowed me to do so as if for the first time - I was near flattened by the weight of inevitability as to how things could not help but go bad; of how choices were forced upon, and then reduced for each of the strongly-evoked characters. All I've said above still applies. In spades.