![]() The supernatural elements of the story are less effective the nature of Lisa’s ghostly presence is never specific enough to work as anything more than a narrative device. I also love her evocation of place and character each member of staff at the station has a backstory, creating a complex web of human relationships. All the while, his public displays of affection convinced her friends and family that “he’s obviously crazy about you, Lisa”.ĭoughty paints a claustrophobic and all-too-believable portrait of a controlling relationship. His violence was psychological: he flirted with other women and limited Lisa’s contact with her friends he constantly questioned her sanity, and made subtle threats that he subsequently explained away. ![]() Her boyfriend, Matty, was a charming doctor in public and a cold-blooded manipulator behind closed doors. Our ghostly narrator died on the same platform in mysterious circumstances only a few months before, and with Doughty’s characteristic drip-feed of information, we slowly find out how and why. Now she takes on that most contemporary of topics, coercive control. ![]() ![]() Doughty paints a claustrophobic and all-too-believable portrait of a controlling relationship ![]()
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