Warning: Contains spoliers When both the cliff edge as Without witnesses, both of Elizabeth George
Friedrich
As he sat on the bank to wait, he realized that apart from a few minutes after waking, today had not thought of Helen, and that fact caused his death fell like a stone on it. He discovered he did not want not to think about it every day and every hour, while understanding that exist in this meant that Helen would have to go farther and deeper into his past as to pass the time. If, however, hurt to know. Beloved wife, cherished son, the two had gone and he would recover. Although the world and life work that way, the very fact of his recovery seemed unbearable and obscene.
can not forget the dead. Sometimes you can surprise sitting in a car, fearing to forget the pain go away, because that pain is what remains and, if it disappears, leave you completely empty. So it is easier to hold on to it, but it hurts so much that we walked to the cliff edge. Walk, trying not to think that the pain does not drag us. Difficult balance.
Time passes and the features that we remember are blurred, the memories are selected, some lost forever are forgotten as the person is gone. With time to smile again, we are surprised one day when we realize that pain no longer occupies our thoughts. Stop doing it and sometimes we remember and feel guilty for not more than drive them less.
Despite police plot, is what this book, the pain of loss, of how becomes the center of our life and how it fades away after, but never disappears. Do not forget. Is continued, but never forgotten altogether. The scars left by the dead will never be erased.
Spread the weight of the fabric between the various characters, sometimes had the feeling that Lynley wandered around the book as if it was not part of it, is not a pillar, Hannaford inspection it is, firm secure advances the plot in each instance he has. Lynley not, he is driven by it in the fragile balance that is not fully involved in research and is not entirely related to the suspects. Lynley walk to the cliff edge in more than one meaning in this book.
I missed Havers, appears in the background, a shadow of what is in other books, their presence is more a wink to the reader than a necessity to the plot, the contrast between her and Hannaford does not convince me, in a sense are characters that look pretty, do not get upgraded.
The subplots focus on fathers (no mothers, mothers do not matter in this book) and sons (and daughters, the daughters do matter), conflicts are resolved, there is almost a happy ending. And that makes it harder, Lynley palpable loneliness, the father will not see the birth of his son, the man who is unable to move forward after a great loss and yet afraid to be able to.
The next morning, Lynley was found humming in the shower. Water down her hair and back and was in the middle of the waltz of "Sleeping Beauty" by Tchaikovsky when he stopped abruptly and realized what he was doing. He felt himself invaded the blame, but it was only a moment. What followed was a memory of Helen, who first made her smile after his death .
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