Somewhere in the middle of the book there’s a family dinner conflict, on Father’s Day, where the father takes the characters and the reader through the family’s entire history of tennis. I didn’t understand some of the choices Moriarty made for how information was revealed. In short, it’s exhausting and often repetitive. We’ll get a chapter from a cop’s perspective, jump back three months in the past to the point of view of the woman who has not yet gone missing, jump forward to a point of view of a hairdresser thinking about the missing woman, then back in time to the daughter of the missing woman, then forward in time to a person at the grocery store overhearing a conversation between the other daughter of the missing woman and someone on the other end of the cell phone. The twists and turns come not from the story itself, but from the narrative’s tendency to jump disorientingly through time and space. Someone who enjoys conventional thrillers would probably end up disappointed. This is a book where you have to be careful about who you recommend it to. Can I think of someone I’d recommend Apples Never Fall to? I can’t think of any reason I would ever need to read this book again. My two go-to questions for writing about a book are simple:Ĭan I think of someone I’d recommend it to?
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