SuitabookParade of Shadows
Gloria Whelan
- Reading
- If the bereavement or the peril feels weighty, pause to check in. You could also invite the reader to weigh what Julia knows about each companion against what remains uncertain.
- Themes
- Secrets and trust: Julia meets a French antiques collector, a British horticulturist and a young student, each of whom harbours secrets. She must decide whom she can trust. The secrets and danger create uncertainty around Julia’s encounters and frame her decisions about trust.
- Worth knowing
- Julia’s mother died ten years earlier, and Julia lives in the house where it happened. The setting is dangerous, and her companions keep secrets.