Advantages: Tightly-plotted and very moving Disadvantages: Some characters lack depth
I didn't quite know what to think when I was told that my book club would be discussing a book called 'The Sixth Lamentation'. Would it be some sort of apocalyptic fiction loosely based on the visions in the Bible? Would it be a case of 'the best thriller since the Da Vinci Code!'? As it turned out, it's neither, which was a great relief. It's a rather powerful, yet low-key examination of the effects that an ancestor's actions can have on their descendants' lives. Dramatic events in occupied France cause much emotional upheaval in the lives of various English men and women of today, most of them descended from the key players in the sixty-year-old drama, the facts of which are slowly revealed to the characters and the readers.
This is the first novel for the author, William Brodrick, and it displays an astonishing level ...
