A review by snoakes7001
Stranger Than Kindness by Mark A. Radcliffe

5.0

We're not even halfway into January yet, and I think I may have just finished the best book I'll read this year.  This novel begins in the late eighties in a psychiatric hospital and then the second section catches up with some of the protagonists several years later in 2013.  I was really sad when the first section ended, but also relieved - it was tearing my heart out.  I'm not sure I could have coped with a whole book that wrenched at my heartstrings that much all the way through.  The second section is just as engrossing but less of an emotional rollercoaster.  I can't stress enough just how good this book is and I suspect I will be banging on about it all year - be warned.  If you liked The Shock of the Fall and/or Scarlett Thomas, then give it a go.