Unsaid
by:
Neil Abramson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
978159995410 (1599954109)
Publish date: August 4th 2011
Publisher: Center Street
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Amazing.
Such an incredibly bland novel but which has all the 'animal' writers raving about it - with their titles tagged on at the end of their pithy reviews on the back cover - which probably proves that not all lawyers make good writers.
I must say that I was pretty disappointed in this book than what I thought I was going to be. Given the description and storyline, I expected this to be a gut-wrenching book. It was written pretty matter of factly!
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