Synopsis
The unmissable and highly anticipated new literary thriller from the author of the international phenomenon The Girl With All the Gifts.
Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's where Jess Moulson could be spending the rest of her life.
It's a place where even the walls whisper.
And one voice belongs to a little boy with a message for Jess.
Will she listen?
This was another of Laura’s recommendations, and I didn’t have to buy the book!!!! So I read it, and loved it. For some reason I thought it was written by Mariah Carey’s ex-husband Nick Cannon, because of the pseudonym used, but that didn’t take anything away from the book.
It is a cross between Wentworth Prison/Prisoner: Cell Block H and a Stephen King book. It is slow at first, till our protagonist goes to the titled prison for the murder of a child. Carey makes the character likeable, we as readers want justice for her and want the real killer to get their comeuppance. She cannot remember much from the night of the murder itself, due to her heroin addiction. The fire itself caused her to need facial surgery. I wanted her to conquer her problems and survive her hunger strike. How can a potential murderer be such a likeable character? She comes across as a victim of circumstance, rather than a cold blooded killer.
Bring in the ghost of Alex Beech (the child she supposedly killed) and through the the ability to enter various inmates’ dreams, and Jess has something to strive for. Alex asks her to find out who killed him. Running parallel to this story arc is the stories of the inmates themselves.
It is a cross between Wentworth Prison/Prisoner: Cell Block H and a Stephen King book. It is slow at first, till our protagonist goes to the titled prison for the murder of a child. Carey makes the character likeable, we as readers want justice for her and want the real killer to get their comeuppance. She cannot remember much from the night of the murder itself, due to her heroin addiction. The fire itself caused her to need facial surgery. I wanted her to conquer her problems and survive her hunger strike. How can a potential murderer be such a likeable character? She comes across as a victim of circumstance, rather than a cold blooded killer.
Bring in the ghost of Alex Beech (the child she supposedly killed) and through the the ability to enter various inmates’ dreams, and Jess has something to strive for. Alex asks her to find out who killed him. Running parallel to this story arc is the stories of the inmates themselves.
- Grace who is the brains behind the drugs operation at Fellside in Goodall wing.
- Devlin the corrupt prison warden, who receives sexual favours from the above
- Sally/Salazar the doctor, who becomes embroiled in the drugs operation
- Nurse Stock a nurse who makes a few blunders
- Paul Levine, Jess’ appeal lawyer, who is in love with her
- Carol Loomis, one of Grace’s cronies
- Liz Earnshaw, another one of the above
There are lots of other intertwining characters and story arcs, that surround the main narrative, which makes this thriller, more thrilling and chilling. It is worth the wait to get into, and it pays off. I don’t want to give too much away, the last few chapters are amazing. My only concern is one character, who is a baddie doesn’t get his comeuppance. I haven’t even told Laura my concern. I kind of wanted all the loose ends to be tied up. But as this character was not a main character: am I just being picky?
One heck of a read.
One heck of a read.
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