![]() ![]() ![]() I feel this book would be great book club material. What transpires is nothing short of disturbing and the revelations are astounding. Since Martha was a real person, Betty attempts to find out everything she can about who Martha was. Betty is a method actress and therefore needs as much information about the character as possible. He hires her to pretend to be his late wife. ![]() Jack inadvertantly comes across an actress named Betty Dean who has an uncanny mimic ability. ![]() His wife had passed away a couple of months prior and it was affecting his work. The story is of film maker Jack Drake who is making a movie out of one of his most traumatic experiences from his childhood. Quite frankly, I am not sure how I expected it to end. Even through the dark overtones, it was a very good book and certainly did not end in the way that I expected. Based on the story and the outcome I am pretty sure that the dual feelings were the intention of the author. I wanted to get through it as fast as possible because it creeped me out yet I also wanted to see what would happen. Desperate to find a way to complete his masterpiece, he hires her to go and stay in his house in France and resuscitate Martha in the role of 'loving spouse'.īut as Betty spends her days roaming the large, sunlit rooms of Jack's mansion - filled to the brim with odd treasures and the occasional crucifix - and her evenings playing the part of Martha over scripted video calls with Jack, she finds her method acting taking her to increasingly dark places.Īnd as Martha comes back to life, she carries with her the truth about her suicide - and the secret she guarded until the end. When Jack sees Betty Dean - actress, mother, trainwreck - playing the part of a crazed nun on stage in an indie production of The Devils, he is struck dumb by her resemblance to Martha. A darkly funny novel set between a London film set and a villa in the south of France - a mix of Vertigo and Jonathan Coe, written by a master storyteller.Ĭelebrated director Jack Drake can't get through his latest film (his most personal yet) without his wife Martha's support. ![]()
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