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Title: That Dark Remembered Day
Author: Tom Vowler
Narrator: Russell Bentley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-14
Publisher: Headline Digital
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
A thought-provoking suspense, for fans of Simon Lelic to Lisa Ballantyne.
Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of? When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must go to her straight away. But he dreads going back there. He has never been able to understand why his mother chose to stay in the town he grew up in, after everything that happened. One day's tragic events years before had left no one living there untouched. Stephen's own dark memories are still poisoning his life, as well as his marriage. Perhaps now is the time to go back and confront the place and the people of his shattered childhood. But will he ever be able to understand the crime that punctured their lives so brutally? How can a community move on from such a terrible legacy?
Members Reviews:
Two Stars
Just ok.
"Dulce et decorum est..."
When Stephen Briggs returns to the town of his childhood to visit his elderly mother, he is forced to remember the events of the day that shattered his life and family, and caused aftershocks that are still rippling through this small community. Back in 1982, his parents had bought Highfield, a dilapidated old house overlooking the town. Richard would leave his career in the Army and together he and Mary would convert the barns into holiday cottages for rent and then live as much as they could off the land. But these plans changed when a sudden fight over a tiny group of islands on the other side of the world became Britain's last imperial war. Richard found himself en route for the Falklands, a small war but a brutal one - and one which affected profoundly many of the men who served.
This book, like Vowler's first,What Lies Within, is being marketed as some kind of psychological thriller, but this is not only misleading, it actually does the book an injustice, as I felt it did to the earlier book too. Although there is a crime at the heart of it, in fact the book is about the trauma of war and how the effects of the psychological damage done to active participants can ripple out through society and down through generations. The book is told from several viewpoints, though each in the third person, and in two timelines. The present day section tells of Stephen's return to the town, and the memories it awakens in him that he has tried unsuccessfully to suppress. The other timeline takes us back to the early '80s where the viewpoint alternates between Stephen as a child, and each of his parents.
Vowler's strength is in his characterisation and again I was struck in this book by how convincingly he can write about his female characters. Although the story is centred around Stephen and his father to some extent, Mary is the character who rang truest for me, both as a young wife and mother in the earlier strand, and now as an ageing and somewhat isolated woman in the present. She's not a heroine - just an ordinary woman struggling to cope with a life that hasn't turned out the way she planned.
Both the main male characters are very well-drawn too though, and the picture of the young soldiers going off to an unexpected war is very convincing.
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Title: That Dark Remembered Day
Author: Tom Vowler
Narrator: Russell Bentley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-14
Publisher: Headline Digital
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
A thought-provoking suspense, for fans of Simon Lelic to Lisa Ballantyne.
Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of? When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must go to her straight away. But he dreads going back there. He has never been able to understand why his mother chose to stay in the town he grew up in, after everything that happened. One day's tragic events years before had left no one living there untouched. Stephen's own dark memories are still poisoning his life, as well as his marriage. Perhaps now is the time to go back and confront the place and the people of his shattered childhood. But will he ever be able to understand the crime that punctured their lives so brutally? How can a community move on from such a terrible legacy?
Members Reviews:
Two Stars
Just ok.
"Dulce et decorum est..."
When Stephen Briggs returns to the town of his childhood to visit his elderly mother, he is forced to remember the events of the day that shattered his life and family, and caused aftershocks that are still rippling through this small community. Back in 1982, his parents had bought Highfield, a dilapidated old house overlooking the town. Richard would leave his career in the Army and together he and Mary would convert the barns into holiday cottages for rent and then live as much as they could off the land. But these plans changed when a sudden fight over a tiny group of islands on the other side of the world became Britain's last imperial war. Richard found himself en route for the Falklands, a small war but a brutal one - and one which affected profoundly many of the men who served.
This book, like Vowler's first,What Lies Within, is being marketed as some kind of psychological thriller, but this is not only misleading, it actually does the book an injustice, as I felt it did to the earlier book too. Although there is a crime at the heart of it, in fact the book is about the trauma of war and how the effects of the psychological damage done to active participants can ripple out through society and down through generations. The book is told from several viewpoints, though each in the third person, and in two timelines. The present day section tells of Stephen's return to the town, and the memories it awakens in him that he has tried unsuccessfully to suppress. The other timeline takes us back to the early '80s where the viewpoint alternates between Stephen as a child, and each of his parents.
Vowler's strength is in his characterisation and again I was struck in this book by how convincingly he can write about his female characters. Although the story is centred around Stephen and his father to some extent, Mary is the character who rang truest for me, both as a young wife and mother in the earlier strand, and now as an ageing and somewhat isolated woman in the present. She's not a heroine - just an ordinary woman struggling to cope with a life that hasn't turned out the way she planned.
Both the main male characters are very well-drawn too though, and the picture of the young soldiers going off to an unexpected war is very convincing.