Nonetheless, Norwich is my native city and I’m a sucker for nostalgia. I was handed a copy of The Truants by a perceptive colleague, with a warning: “There’s an abortion in it – but it’s set in Norwich!” After my recent miscarriage on a holiday home to Norwich an abortion as a result of a one-off romp in The Old Swan wasn’t high on my list of things to read about. An exceptional modern-day whodunnit, it twists through the Norfolk countryside and crumbling Sicilian ghost towns stirring up excitement, pain and debauchery. This is a tale of desire, betrayal and deceit. Yet The Truants, also a debut, came out laughing. It was always going to be unfair on whichever book I read after Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women that divisive, genre-defying masterpiece on the manipulation of female desire. Chloe Blades reviews Kate Weinberg’s first novel, which is selling like mad and earning the London writer comparisons to Agatha Christie and Donna Tartt.
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