Helpful Score: 1
Summary: Peter Harding and Philip Bartels meet up again in the French countryside of their youth a place that still holds the history and the dark secrets they share, tempered only slightly by time the place where Philip feeling trapped in a marriage hes no longer happy with, falls in love with the graceful/charming Lorna & decides to poison his wife Beatrice to avoid a humiliating divorce & spare her a lonely life invites Peter to come to lunch to meet Lorna& unwittingly sets off a shocking chain of events that will change all of their lives forever (as Peter comes to plan to steal Lorna).
Review: I agree that Bingham brilliantly captures the mindset of the 2 men - Philip's cold-hearted plans vs Peter's sincerity (with Bookgasm), that this tale is timeless (with Reviewing the Evidence) and that its dark humor and invigorating (& a bit shocking) plot earned its place on Keating's List of 100 Best Books.
Review: I agree that Bingham brilliantly captures the mindset of the 2 men - Philip's cold-hearted plans vs Peter's sincerity (with Bookgasm), that this tale is timeless (with Reviewing the Evidence) and that its dark humor and invigorating (& a bit shocking) plot earned its place on Keating's List of 100 Best Books.
