A Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, The Confession is an absorbing tale of secrets and self-discovery from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to LA, but in this city of strange dreams and razzle-dazzle, ...
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A Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, The Confession is an absorbing tale of secrets and self-discovery from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to LA, but in this city of strange dreams and razzle-dazzle, Elise feels even more out of her depth and makes an impulsive decision that will change her life forever. Three decades later, Rose Simmons is trying to uncover the story of her mother, who disappeared when she was a baby. Having learned that the last person to see her was a now reclusive novelist, Rose finds herself at the door of Constance Holden's house in search of a confession . . . 'Dazzlingly good, utterly engrossing . . . Without doubt one of the best novels of recent years' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail
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This book centres on three women - Elise Morceau, a young woman who falls in love with an author, Constance Holden and then her daughter Rose who is searching for her mother.
The interplay between Connie and Elise, their lesbian relationship, the strains of one being older and successful, and the other just starting out life with no real purpose, worked quite well.
Rose comes over as unhappy, in a go-nowhere relationship with Joe who has high dreams but little realistic ability to achieve them. Her desire to find her mother, or at least discover what happened to her, are explored as she takes quite a radical step to achieve this. She does come over as quite manipulative and self-centred, even to the end.
I couldn't really identify or sympathise with these characters, who made their choices and then bemoaned the consequences. The book is well-written but didn't really grip me.
Thank you to NetGalley, Pan Macmillan and Picador for allowing me access to the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
