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This book had an intriguing set up and I enjoyed the basic story. I thought the ending was kind of flat and I was at times confused by the editing - the story would jump from the present to one of many pasts without warning, and I'd have to re-read paragraphs to figure out if I was in the mother's time, the main character's time as a small child, or the main character's time as a teenager. It was confusing and distracting.


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A Double Life Flynn Berry Books Reviews

I have mixed thoughts here. The basic skeleton of this story has been overly fleshed out with extraneous material in the first 2/3 of the book. Too much unnecessary narrative. I almost didn’t push on but skimmed a good bit. The concluding section is more tightly written, but doesn’t save the book. There’s enough meat here for a tightly written short story.
I think I will be haunted by this book and these characters for a very long time. It's one of the best novels I've read this year, and now I'm starting her first book, Under the Harrow.
I really liked Flynn's first book Under the Harrow so I was excited for this one. The whole book is written in the first person which just gets annoying and there is nothing special about the ending or the plot in general.
Please please do not bother reading this book. So slow and meandering...I kept waiting for something to FINALLY happen and when it did it was completely unrealistic and ridiculous. This book was a huge disappointment. The reviews said great twists and turns--please.....So unrealistic and dull and slow...don't bother unless you need a cure for insomnia...sorry...
Very engaging writing. You feel like you are walking in the shoes of the main character which is pretty astounding.
The premise of this book has so much potential. A man from a well-known family accused of murder and disappears without a trace. His daughter seeks the truth years later and inserts herself into the lives of those she swears helped him get away. I had high hopes for this book but those 2 sentences describe all you really need to know about this book. The story was hard to follow and poorly edited. The narrator is not relatable and evokes no emotions from the reader. The ending "twist" was a let down and made the lead up to it (ie. the entire book...) feel like a waste of time. Don't bother.
I loved this book. Flynn Berry creates an indomitable character in Claire, a British General Practitioner who displays great courage and resourcefulness in investigating, as an adult, a vicious murder that she witnessed when she was only 8 years old.

A Double Life is a psychological suspense thriller set in present-day London and Scotland. It is loosely based on the story of Lord Lucan, a Member of Parliament who disappeared in 1979 after being accused of murder. The real Lord Lucan had several children; Berry imagines how such a man’s daughter and son would have coped with the fallout from the murder and their subsequent life in Witness Protection, where their greatest fear was that their father might return.

A Double Life reveals the depravity of the scions of the Upper Class—those Oxford men who speak with cut-glass accents and throw their privilege around like a weapon against those less endowed with cash, connections, and real estate. It shows how the crimes they committed as students—for the sheer arrogance of proving they could escape punishment—led to repercussions that haunted their children for decades afterwards.

My one quibble is with the editing the book contains many independent clauses or sentences that should have been separated by a period or semicolon. I read—and loved—Berry’s previous book, Under the Harrow, and noticed this error in that book also. This seems to be one of the few weaknesses in her writing style, one a good editor should correct.

Fans of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and Liz Nugent’s Unraveling Oliver will not be able to put this book down.
This book had an intriguing set up and I enjoyed the basic story. I thought the ending was kind of flat and I was at times confused by the editing - the story would jump from the present to one of many pasts without warning, and I'd have to re-read paragraphs to figure out if I was in the mother's time, the main character's time as a small child, or the main character's time as a teenager. It was confusing and distracting.