It’s just a great, reassuring, investigation novel with the added angle of the apparently innocuous protagonists.
A couple of things separate to the main gist have been interesting for me. As my grandmother is in a pretty luxurious retirement village (though not to the same level as Cooper’s Chase) it was nice to read about the interactions and gossip that might go on and the friends that can be made over the various activities they might sometimes begrudgingly shuffle along to. Also the way a few characters were managing the worrying line between the brain holding itself together with moments of lucidity and the acknowledgement that it was slipping away.
There is a portrayal of a mother daughter relationship with one of the main elderly characters which has helped me to see things from mums view a little bit more. In her diary she writes about not wanting to say the things that she knows her daughter will roll her eyes at. There is a focus on her grown adult daughter that feels familiar but there is also the hints of manipulation from the mother that she is aware of in herself enough to record in her diary.
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