Nutshell
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she’s with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy’s womb.
Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A new version of the story of Hamlet told by an unborn child. Truday and Claude, pregnant wife and brother of the child’s father, plot the murder of John Cairncross. The kingdom at stake is a dilapidated Georgian house in London worth a few million pounds. A tight plot and an elegiac style make for captivating reading.