A review by cathaldon1
The Book of Evidence by John Banville

3.5

Starts off well but drags towards the end. Banville’s prose here is excellent. It puts you in the mentality of Freddie Montgomery, a man consisting of a thin veneer of gentility stretched over a vacuum of emotion, swayed entirely by base instincts he does not understand. The story then, as Freddie tells it, becomes about how far from the norm his instincts will push him to act, and once the novel reaches the apex of his actions the rest feels like busywork — The story has ended but the plot needs to conclude. The final pages suggest an interesting change in character for Freddie, but I can’t see myself following him further.