A review by paulataua
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps by Michel Faber
5.0
Siân is working on an archeological dig at Whitby abbey when she meets Mack and his dog on the steps leading up to the abbey. With the start of a relationship comes the mystery of a centuries old manuscript in a bottle that needs to be unfolded. Of course, the story is written by Michel Faber and so the actual mystery or the relationship are less important that what it all means for Sian in her quest to find herself.
‘The job is trickier than I thought. You’re going to have to decide what’s more important to you, Mack: knowing what that document says, or keeping it the way you like’.
A short but totally engaging novella that I really enjoyed will reread somewhen in the future.
‘The job is trickier than I thought. You’re going to have to decide what’s more important to you, Mack: knowing what that document says, or keeping it the way you like’.
A short but totally engaging novella that I really enjoyed will reread somewhen in the future.