![]() And as more forgotten secrets about Toby’s past and his supposedly reliable network of confidantes resurface, he loses control of everything he once thought to be inalterable. ![]() Even when he visits his relatives and friends at his family home Ivy House, Toby can’t help but feel strangely disassociated from his former life and his supposedly stable identity. But with the appearance of two burglars, who disrupt Toby’s well-ordered home and leave him deadly wounded, his stable little world begins to fall apart.įrom then on, the novel draws on Toby’s unsuccessful recovery from his traumatic encounter with the burglars. We get to know the narrator Toby Hennessy, an Irish public relations specialist with an almost annoyingly good fortune: Be it his supportive friends, his well-paying job or his compassionate girlfriend – a part of you just wants to see the guy get torn down just a little bit. ![]() A promising psychological thriller that lacks the psychological depth of a full-on character study while missing out on the suspense of a thriller. ![]() ![]() An Unfortunately Hollow Tree Introductionĭid you ever have to listen to a presentation of someone at school or work who had everything perfectly organised but just couldn’t execute it the way they wanted to? Or have you ever seen a movie with a gripping underlying tension which simply dissolves as the film drags on and on? This is what reading Tana French’s The Witch Elm felt like to me. ![]()
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