![]() So, as we read, she’s reading it as well, living the nightmare as well. So… she’s the Susan of the novel’s title, and she’s reading about Tony, an invention of the man she hasn’t been married to for twenty-odd years…. ![]() Because this thriller has been written by Susan’s ex-husband, and he’s sent it to his her to read. The story is a page-turner: we’re inside Tony’s head, living the events of an awful night and worse morning with him.īut that’s not the point, or not entirely. At the end of Part 1 the worst has just been confirmed: his wife and daughter, who’d been taken off by the bad guys, have been found murdered. ![]() A nice, middle class man finds his world suddenly turned inside out when he happens to be slightly outside his normal sphere. There’s a real mystery/thriller at the core of it, Nocturnal Animals, one of those ‘what if’ stories that the film critic Philip French called yuppie nightmares. A quotation from a review of it was cited and I ordered a copy -second-hand, because it’s out of print. ![]() Ah. I came across this book by accident – by looking up the word ‘metafiction’ in an online version of the OED. ![]() Tony, on the other hand, is just a character in the novel that she is reading. To the end of Part 1 of the ‘Tony’ story: Chapter 10 of Susan’s story that frames it ![]()
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