A senseless murder in a sleepy seaside town in Suffolk catastrophically disrupts the lives of two families in this rather predictable but artful novel by Myerson (Laura Blundy ; Me and the Fat Man ...

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Julie Myerson, 40, a novelist, lives in South London with Jonathan, also 40, a writer, and their three children. In this low-effort, faster-is-better age of ours there are now shortcuts to just ...