Jennifer White is devastated when she is told that her best friend Amanda has been murdered, four fingers from her right hand neatly removed. As the police pursue their investigation and Jennifer searches her own mind for fractured clues to Amanda's death, a portrait emerges of a complex relationship between two uncompromising, unsentimental women, lifelong friends who were at times each others most formidable adversaries.
Narrated by Jennifer, a 64 year old retired hand surgeon who has Alzheimers, the story details the slow deterioration of her mind and gradually providing us with an insight into Amanda's murder. Through out the story Jennifer jumps in and out of past and present giving us insight into this awful condition.
The murder mystery element lost its way and the twist was surprising.
I stumbled across this book from an article in a magazine- I was intrigued and thought it would be an interesting (if different) read for our book club. Had I thumbed through it at a bookshop and not brought it on the kindle I would probably have put it back- it was written in short passages, and when someone else was narrating the story the typeface changed, not a style I care for.
This book was met with tepid enthusiasm and although there was encouraging comments from our group our discussion focused more on our personal experiences.
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