![]() ![]() ![]() When they hear a scream from the next room, Freddie and the three strangers she was writer-stalking all start talking and speculating about it. It’s gentle, casual writing, as Freddie imagines backstories and brainstorms connections for the three people near her: Freud Girl, Heroic Chin, and Handsome Man. (And then there’s the author’s note, in which Gentill mentions her real American penpal…)įreddie, an Australian writer with a fellowship in Boston, is daydreaming and trying to write in the Reading Room of the main Boston Public Library. ![]() ![]() The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill, is a thriller around a novelist, working on a thriller that might have a novelist in it… It gets a bit confusing at a few moments, since there’s the book I’m reading by Sulari Gentill, which contains the book written by Hannah about Freddie, which contains the book written by Freddie, about three characters who strongly resemble her friends… After each chapter of Freddie’s story is written, by an author called Hannah who we never actually meet, a letter from Hannah’s American friend Leo arrives, commenting on and critiquing the story, and then there’s book-Leo, a friend Hannah’s given her character Freddie, inspired by her penpal. ![]()
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