A well executed, intricately plotted novel which nevertheless
disappoints. Natalie is a bright, pretty young woman whose life is
too ordinary and disappointing for her ambitions. She works in the
accounts department of a large telecommunications company and lives
with an unreliable boyfriend in an undesirable area of Leeds. She
has no family to speak of: only a mother who appears occasionally
and is more of a liability than support, and a father who
disappeared when she was a child. So she must take care of herself.
A swift and potentially devastating series of events leads Natalie
to a position of reckless defiance and she embarks on a career of
crime with unforeseen tragic consequences for the innocent lives
her actions affect. Deborah Moggach is an experienced writer, good
at cutting through cant and self-deceit and dissecting the complex
tawdriness at the heart of modern life, but this novel is glib. The
major characters, Natalie in particular, are hard to like and it
becomes difficult to care about how the plot works itself out, or
what happens to their sad, shattered lives (Kirkus UK)
Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications. Living her life through wild weekends, yearning for something more.
When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, its' only a minor crime. Nobody will be hurt, will they? But Colin gets hurt. He's the man who Natalie marries. And other people's lives are changed, terribly and irrevocably. Because Natalie's actions do have consequences - tragic consequences.
Poignant and beautifully written, Deborah Moggach's new novel is a cautionary tale about the terrible battle between desires and greed, about human hopes and our own frailty in the face of temptation.
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