Written by Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie (oh look, where you can pick up a copy of the book) follows Florance, a woman in an assisted living facility in England who is faced with the possibility of getting moved to a home for those who need more help. But, when a man joins who looks eerily like someone from her past, she must figure out who he is, despite her best friend Elsie’s persuasion.
This isn’t a novel I would have ever picked up for myself, but was the book club book of the month, so I read it. And I enjoyed it. I won’t be reading it again, but that has more to do with the fact that currently I don’t relate to the book.
The characters of marvelous (and the twists wonderful), but the writing style is done in such a way so that, pretty quickly into the book, you know that Florence has some level of memory issues.
Honestly, my favorite character was Jack, a man who came to Florence’s aid and actually tried to help her.
This is a book that brings up a lot of discussions of not only how crimes are handled, but what that lose of memory and aging in general can do to a person. It was a bitter sweet novel. Honestly, its a good book club book or if you are the kind of person who enjoys reading novels that are comments on aspects of the human condition.
