Something Might Happen - Hardcover

Myerson, Julie

3.44

679 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224063928 ISBN 13: 9780224063920

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2003

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On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. Her name is Lennie and, thinks her best friend Tess, she is not the type to have something happen to her. Something Might Happen is not a murder mystery. There are clues, false trails, detectives, all the paraphernalia of the whodunnit, but Myerson's concern is with the effect of the murder on an ordinary community and specifically on Tess herself, her husband Mick and her three children. As the police go about their routine investigation, Tess's world of nappies, Elastoplast and fish fingers begins to unravel. Suddenly nothing is certain, the mundane becomes charged with significance, established relationships begin to crumble and places that once were safe are safe no longer. This is a novel of extraordinary skilfulness and almost unbearable tension. Julie Myerson creates a world that is recognizable in every detail, so that when it begins to fracture we feel as if it were our own lives that are under threat.

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Review:

"Summer reading may never be the same after Julie Myerson's latest novel...Myerson has a talent for making the unthinkable readable. The result is riveting" (Observer)

"Electrifying" (Financial Times)

"This is top-notch storytelling - it doesn't let go and keeps you thinking" (Daily Mail)

"This novel stands as her most impressively realised work to date...Myerson has a forensic interest in the messiness of grief, which she itemises with the awful clarity of vision that often accompanies shock" (Guardian)

"Mesmerising, chilling stuff; Myerson's prose is taut and precise" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

The breakthrough book for this highly-regarded novelist; the story of how a murder in a small Suffolk town casts its shadow over everyone who lives there.

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