He loves animals, but cannot stand to be touched by other people. Nor is it the fact that this is an adolescent’s view of family dynamics, which leads to a professional interest, but the character of Christopher himself, who, within a few pages, is clearly not your everyday teenager.Ĭhristopher is obviously very intelligent, and has a superbly logical brain that excels at mathematics, yet everyday interactions hold little, or confusing, meaning for him, and although he knows all the countries of the world and their capitals, he has little understanding of human emotions. For a start, the murder victim is not human, but a dog, and the story itself unfolds, and is told, as seen through the eyes of a fifteen year old child, Christopher. Yet beyond these superficial features the story bears little relationship to the usual murder mystery. Certainly it tells a riveting story, and is great fun to read, exploring aspects of the dynamics of a family torn apart. At first glance this appears to be an unusual book to be reviewed in a psychiatric journal. This short novel tells of a seemingly unlikely murder, and the truths that emerge as the main character’s investigation into the circumstances surrounding the murder proceeds.
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