This was a tantalising read. I admit that I went into it knowing that it was a good old unreliable narrator affair but that didn't spoil the appreciation.

I suspected the denouement early on but this didn't remotely detract from the rest of the novel - it was fun to pick out the clues that confirmed my thoughts.

There are many other parts of this novel that remain ambiguous, or that I didn't pick up on. Relationships are strange, heightened by the dialogue which has a halting character perhaps sounding like it might if translated from Japanese (I don't think it was, I'm sure it was originally written in English). There was so much more I wanted to know.

The end was both excellent and disappointing because I appreciated the lack of elucidation - I still had so many questions! Did I want answers or am I happy to go on wondering?