Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.
*** [SO HERE I am, upside down in a woman] ***(Vintage Digital, 1 September 2016, ebook, 208 pages, borrowed from my library)
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I really wanted to love this book. The premise is really unusual and original and I'd heard such good things about it. Unfortunately, Nutshell doesn't work for me. The book opens with a corker and I had high hopes for the rest of the book. The narration just didn't work for me. The voice of Trudy's foetus is just too old, wise, cynical and learned for me. I'm not sure what I was expecting. A babyish voice wouldn't exactly work either. Maybe something in-between. The voice is off for me. Because the voice is so mature I really lost the idea that the narrator was a foetus. The narrator could have been anyone. There are some good moments in the book, some dark moments but the poor execution of using a foetus as a narrator rather spoiled it for me.
