It reminds us that it is possible to be in a prison of life’s devising even when apparently surviving on the outside Once again, the story involves false identity as a woman named Steph gives herself the slip. The third, Brixton Hill, shares the confident sheen of its predecessors and offers her most accomplished plot yet. Under the Sun, her second, was another gripping tale, about a solitary woman caught up in a claustrophobic expat community in Spain whose life starts to slide out of control as she gets caught up with a sinister local businessman. It was a page-turner of a performance and deservedly attracted notice (nominated for the Guardian first book award). Lottie’s debut novel, Kiss Me First, was about a young woman seduced by an online community into taking on a dangerously assumed identity. Many people write well but a fluent narrative gift is rarer, tougher to learn and often underrated. For the Moggachs, mother and daughter, know how to tell a story. – if you have read Deborah Moggach’s fiction – about the possibility of a narrative gene passed down within families. Lottie Moggach’s talent is her own, yet it is impossible not to speculate
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