A review by jmatkinson1
Platform Seven by Louise Doughty
3.0
When a man jumps in front of a train from Platform seven at Peterborough station it seems like a simple suicide. However this is the second death at the station in 18 months and surely the two must be connected. Desperate to find the truth is Lisa Evans, that's because she was the first to die and hers was not a suicide.
There is a really clever idea here, a woman investigates her own death and as her memory returns the reader sees the psychological torment she is put through prior to the tragic event. I really wanted to love this book but I couldn't. It feels so pedestrian in places, Lisa isn't very loveable and sometimes the writing is very cliched.
There is a really clever idea here, a woman investigates her own death and as her memory returns the reader sees the psychological torment she is put through prior to the tragic event. I really wanted to love this book but I couldn't. It feels so pedestrian in places, Lisa isn't very loveable and sometimes the writing is very cliched.