Dear Agatha,
Apparently I read this 8 years ago this month for the reading circle I joined for about... 2 books. I think I enjoyed it more the first time, to be honest, although I still loved this read. It just felt repetitious in spots to me this time.
Being an adoptive parent (I wasn't in 2013 and it wasn't even remotely something I had considered), this struck me:
It was an article of faith with her (Rachel Argyle) that the blood tie didn't matter. But the blood tie does matter, you know. There is usually something in one's own children, some kink of temperament, some way of feeling that you recognize and can understand without having to put into words. You haven't got that tie with children you adopt. One has no instinctive knowledge of what goes on in their minds. You judge them, of course, by yourself, by your own thoughts and feelings, but it's wise to recognize that those thoughts and feelings may be very widely divergent from theirs. -- Leo Argyle
Food for thought, anyway.
Again, a wild and inventive plot, wonderful characters, a twisty road, and great fun.
Always,
b.
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