Bones are discovered two decades after Kathleen’s daughter disappeared. She and her ex-husband drive across Canada for the truth
Kathleen’s daughter, Una, disappeared without trace 19 years before the novel begins. Kathleen has never given up hope of finding her. The narrative opens when bones, which may be Una’s, are discovered near where she went missing, on Vancouver Island. Una’s father, Yannick, from whom Kathleen has been long divorced, appears and asks her to drive with him across Canada to do a DNA test. She reluctantly agrees.
Kathleen is tough and independent, working hard at her flower garden business, given to strong language. Her grief at the loss of her daughter is well traced, and the emotional lives of the characters are explored with sensitivity and insight. This is a kind novel; one senses the author’s compassion for all the main players – it is mainly told from Kathleen’s point of view, but from time to time we switch to Yannick’s, and there are flashbacks to Una’s .
The writing is excellent. Plenty of pacy dialogue, original metaphors and striking lines: “The name Una means ‘one and only’. For Yannick this name is a smoking bullet hole. A hot dead star.” “You don’t appreciate how big the ocean is, or how indifferent, until you’re searching for somebody you’ve lost.”The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A fish-out-of-water comedy
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