This is the fourth story in the Jackson Brodie series. As always, several stories are intertwined and it takes half the book to understand their relationship. First, Jackson Brodie investigates the adoption of Hope, now a young woman. Then Tracy Waterhouse, a retired policeman, impulsively buys a child from a mother. Finally, we follow the decline of an elderly actress who becomes demented. As the characters’ paths converge, the novel explores the complexity of human relationships and the consequences of past actions. I love Jackson Brodie and really enjoy every book he appears in.
“Schrödinger, whoever he was, and his cat, and anyone else that felt like it, had all climbed inside Pandora’s box and were dining on a can of worms. Jackson felt the beginnings of a headache, another one, on top of the one he already had.”
Listened to as an audiobook