Sean Randall reviewed After Anna by Alex Lake
Review of 'After Anna' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Despite it being very obvious to me who was behind the kidnapping early on, I enjoyed this book a great deal. The depiction of modern Britain is nicely drawn, and the class lines between the two women are vivid and of course very real. The end of the book accelerated well, and the interludes from the kidnappers POV, as in so many of this type of work, served well in this case to shine light on the perceived wrongs of society. The only thing left hanging for me was Simon, who seemed a little underexplored and didn’t really fit with the motif. And for all that I knew who it was, as I said? I still didn’t want to get out of bed, after finishing it, to go downstairs for a drink. Just in case someone was there with a hammer or a knife…
