All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

English language

Published Dec. 30, 2023 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-345-53184-1
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4 stars (1 review)

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Not quite as intense as his previous novels

4 stars

I think I was expecting a bit more punch for this than it delivered, hence why I didn't rate it higher. That said, that has a lot to do with my expectations and another reader may feel this more intently than I did.

The premise that one day in the 1970s, Jane Larkin disappears. She is married with three children, late teens Alex, early teens Jeff, and middle-schooler Miranda. But the first point of view character is that of a writer about to publish a novel based on the disappearance of his childhood friends' mother decades later. Because it's so long after the disappearance, this section can reveal a bit of how each of the members of the family handles, and has handled, the disappearance over the years.

Jeff & Miranda come to think that their father murdered their mother, but the police never find anything to connect him to …

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