This is a strange book. A girl disappears in a small village, and one assume abductions, or worse.
The style of the book is to ‘hover like a helicopter’ over the whole village, including the activities of its flora and fauna, over the 13 years during which the villagers interact with each other, and the mystery is never solved. It could be The Archers.
The village is surrounded by (numbered) reservoirs, but no. 13 is no more significant than any other, so is the title a (poor) pun on the years involved?
There is no dialogue and I have said to Paddy (it was recommended to her by a friend) that if she wants to read it she needs to annotate and list the characters.
It didn’t work for me.
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