6/25/2023 0 Comments Platform seven by louise doughtyYou don’t create a CV like this without bravery and Doughty is not afraid to delve into the depths of what makes us human, whether unexpected lust, as in Apple Tree Yard, or guilt and denial in her 8th – Black Water – which I reviewed in March 2018. The novel was made into a successful BBC series in 2017. Platform Seven is Doughty’s 9th novel in an acclaimed career of which the pinnacle so far must be Apple Tree Yard, a riveting novel of crime and adultery which opens with what must be one of the most gripping first chapters ever written in the English language. Not even how she died.īut when a desperate man commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train from platform seven, she begins to suspect that it has something to do with her own death.Īnd maybe the woman who died on platform seven in suspicious circumstances 18 months before was her. Worse, she can remember almost nothing of her past life. Station, condemned to wander the platforms day and especially night – and alsoīecause she actually is nothing more than a soul. Literally, because she is both trapped on Peterborough Her latest, Platform Seven, finds her heroine, Lisa, in the middle of what is, in every sense, a dark night of the soul. Louise Doughty is one of the best novelists writing today, and she has never shied away from edgier subjects. I have no problem with light stories,Įither, but there’s something about a novel or a film that is unafraid of the
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