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The dynamics between the holidaying friends are fascinating, often being alcohol fuelled exchanges but always sparking intrigue. She comes to realise one of her closest friends has a devastating secret they’ve been keeping from her. That’s what I have to do every day for the rest of their lives - try and make it OK that their daddy has died. By the end of the holiday Liz’s husband Andrew is dead, presumed drowned and all her friends are a suspect. I wasn't sure on this when I first started it, I've read so many books with friends on a holiday where someone ends up dead so that it was going to be same old same old.
It kept me guessing to the end, was packed full of twists and was also a very moving portrayal of someone who is widowed unexpectedly. The Landell Trust, a charity which supports Liz through the whole missing-husband trauma, sounded like a real thing and I was a bit surprised that - at least according to Google - it doesn't actually exist.The whole movie would have been solved if she could identify her "nanny," so I understand the choice. Toxic, self-absorbed and interested in materialistic things, out of all the lives Liz, has faired the best. They don’t want to know how I sit on the sofa night after night, after the kids have gone to bed, staring in horror at the empty space at the other end of the sofa where he used to sit.
Trina’s wearing a classic black shift dress that used to be fitted but is now loose around her hips and gapes under the arms.In the church, the boys sit either side of me, huddling in as close as they can possibly get, my arms enfolding them in the vain hope of providing some comfort.