Three friends go cliff climbing in Hayley Scrivenor’s new crime novel, but one plummets to her death. Why?
The epigram to Hayley Scrivenor’s new crime novel says it all: “To the friends that mess us up and the ones that save us.”is about those relationships that develop in high school that may haunt us for the rest of our lives. Indeed, I reached the last page – breathlessly it must be said – and lay awake for hours replaying the intensity of my own friendships and their aftermath, the joy and pain they delivered in equal spades. This is a book that invites you to remember and to empathise.
From thereon chapters alternate between two time frames, the aftermath of the accident and what happened “before”. The before includes the moment when Finn first met Daphne in year 10 at Indra High, Indra being the fictional name of a town that is “two thirds of the way along a chain of mountain towns that snaked ever higher and deeper into the national park”.
As Finn dwells on the past, she also tells us how she and Magdu first met and how they fell instantly in love. Finn identifies as bisexual, a term she embraces because it chimes right with her, “the correct note played on a piano”, although she’s hardly been in any kind of long-term relationship with either sex. It’s a form of bravado.
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