Name: Unraveling Oliver
Rating: 3.166666666666667 (12 reviews)
ISBN: 9781501167751

Liz Nugent

Originally published: Ireland: Penguin Ireland, 2014.

A Novel

Unraveling Oliver

Sahi K

The book starts off with Oliver confessing that he has hit his wife Alice so badly that she has gone into a coma and might never come out of it. After that, we get to know their story through multiple POVs and timelines – young and teenage Oliver, Alice’s first boyfriend, their neighbor, Oliver’s old friends, Alice’s mentally challenged brother and the details of the summer of 1973.

I really had high expectations from this book and I was disappointed. We are told that Oliver is a psychopath in the beginning itself and the book is supposed to unravel the truth about him, but I did not get that. The story is well written, multiple timelines are managed quite smoothly, and overall it was a good read. It never got boring and I really enjoyed a couple of the side characters. I also especially liked the subplot in France. But the book promised so much more, so I am a little dissatisfied.

Unraveling Oliver A Novel

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