Martin Vander Weyer at Literary Review:
Following a chance conversation with a stranger in a London television studio in 2023, Radden Keefe picks up the unsolved mystery of a young man’s death and embarks on a quest to unravel it. The result is a masterclass of evidence-chasing, narrative clarity and authorial empathy.
The young man in question was Zac Brettler, second son of caring middle-class Jewish parents, Rachelle and Matthew, and grandson of Rabbi Hugo Gryn, a Holocaust survivor celebrated for the homely wisdom he dispensed on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. Brought up in a comfortable mansion flat in ‘quietly prosperous’ Maida Vale, Zac was an athletic and sociable youngster, a pied piper to younger children in the neighbourhood and, according to his mother, always ‘at ease talking to adults’.
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