Louise Doughty_63

I didn't expect to be drawn into this book, and yet I was. It opens at Peterborough Railway Station; a man throws himself in front of a train, and was not the first to do so. We don't know the man but we feel for the staff. Then, a shift of gears, and it's a subtle suburban whodunit, narrated by a ghost. Louise Doughty's 'Platform Seven'—her ninth novel—was much more than I expected; complex, reflective and moving.