A review by lola425
You Came Back: A Novel by Christopher Coake

4.0

Coake handles this subject matter with finesse. You are drawn in immediately, you take the ride with Mark and both disbelieve in Brendan's ghost and the events being described and very much want them to be true because you want to believe in happy endings and--that dreaded word--closure. When [spoiler] Mark hears Jake's cat thumping down the stairs, your hopes are shattered simultaneously with Mark's. [/spoiler]. This book is not maudlin or sentimental, as it very easily could have been, but reads messy and true.