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it's sooo long, but really dives into the lives and changing views of each of the characters, something i often miss in contemporary fiction. The author explores the different mindsets of the siblings and parents of an american family, where the dad is a parish leader. obviously they all have a strong connection with religion and eachother. We follow them for a good few years, and i loved reading this because it really shows how people change. Even though they are siblings, growing up in the same house, they lead such different lives.

What I find most amazing about this book is the way the writer writes in first person, and goes in-between two characters. I enjoy how he makes them so different yet so similar. And how he shows their separate lives to them meeting during a crime scene. It's so heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. The writer really thought hard how to put this story together and wanted it to me something people would remember.

Such a gripping book, major plot twist

The author is wonderfully sarcastic about the WW1 Western Front in the opening chapter which sets up the premise of what follows. There are some very funny and witty passages. It is "of its time" but a classic I think. A bit Kingsley Amis or P G Wodehouse in tone.