A Tidy Ending: The latest dark comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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They offer a lifestyle that she can only dream of and in Linda’s delusional world, Rebecca becomes her best friend. Plus, it meant I could open a new packet of Jaffa Cakes and put my music on very quietly without Tamsin giving me one of her looks. Read The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Joanna Cannon’s novel set in 1976 about two ten-year-old sleuths investigating the mysterious disappearance of a neighbor in their small town. Joanna Cannon is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, which has sold over 250,000 copies in the UK alone and has been published in 15 countries. Soon after Clare is deserted by her husband, she meets new neighbour Louisa, who persuades her to help with a business venture, providing catering for funerals.

A sinister but darkly funny tale full of shocking twists, A Tidy Ending asks whether the grass is really greener and if we can ever really know even those closest to us. I enjoyed this from start to finish, particularly the satisfying last few chapters, it’s very well done. But the loss of her father has never left Linda; she thinks about him constantly and how his death affected her small family. She always was soft in the head or Poor Linda, I often thought she was a little bit strange, because we like to cast the heroes and the villains quite early on in a story, and then everyone knows where they are.The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This is a mystery for those who enjoy the thrill of solving puzzles, rather than the thrill of the chase.

Newspapers will always sniff around, asking their questions, wanting answers and photographs and rummaging in everyone else’s business. After perusing the glossy catalogs addressed to Rebecca Finch, Linda begins imagining herself into a different sort of life—a better, more glamorous one like she imagines Rebecca must have.

It’s such a well written character driven book that has all the ingredients I like in a well executed novel. People have started to go missing in the neighbourhood and Linda will soon discover that some secrets can't stay buried forever. Linda lives a nice, normal life, on a nice, normal street with Terry, her perfectly ordinary husband.