Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder
Kerryn Mayne
Reviewed by Helen
I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Lenny in this wonderful debut, Lenny is different, caring and finds it hard to make friends, but there is a really good reason for Lenny to be like this and I highly recommend that you get to know her and the other fabulous characters that are part of the story.
For twenty five years she has done her best to not think about the day her mother left her when she was just eleven years old the last words her step father said to her were “you did this” and it replays over and over even to this day, she then spent some time living with her grandmother and then she was moved to her foster parents Fay and Robert, where she lived happily although she never spoke about her past.
Lenny is thirty seven years old and teaches grade five at Selby South primary school, she likes order and a quiet life that runs the same she doesn’t like change very much, she has thirty six copies of The Hobbit, she watches re-runs of Friends and plays scrabble with her pretend housemate and loves her teaching job.
Her life changes when a letter from the parole board arrives at the school and Lenny’s life unravels big time, memories are coming back all while she is trying her best to make her mother, Fay happy by trying to get a life which means bringing people into her quiet orderly life. Sometime of work is needed maybe she can work through everything that is happening.
This is such a great story, there is a lot happening as we see Lenny’s life change as she finally remembers everything from her past, unlocking those memories is filled with emotion what she went through was terrible but her strength through it all shows, I loved seeing her react to other people add to that the characters that are there for her this story is compelling and so well told, I do highly recommend this one it is sure to keep any reader entertained.
My thanks to Penguin AU for my copy to read and review.
For twenty five years she has done her best to not think about the day her mother left her when she was just eleven years old the last words her step father said to her were “you did this” and it replays over and over even to this day, she then spent some time living with her grandmother and then she was moved to her foster parents Fay and Robert, where she lived happily although she never spoke about her past.
Lenny is thirty seven years old and teaches grade five at Selby South primary school, she likes order and a quiet life that runs the same she doesn’t like change very much, she has thirty six copies of The Hobbit, she watches re-runs of Friends and plays scrabble with her pretend housemate and loves her teaching job.
Her life changes when a letter from the parole board arrives at the school and Lenny’s life unravels big time, memories are coming back all while she is trying her best to make her mother, Fay happy by trying to get a life which means bringing people into her quiet orderly life. Sometime of work is needed maybe she can work through everything that is happening.
This is such a great story, there is a lot happening as we see Lenny’s life change as she finally remembers everything from her past, unlocking those memories is filled with emotion what she went through was terrible but her strength through it all shows, I loved seeing her react to other people add to that the characters that are there for her this story is compelling and so well told, I do highly recommend this one it is sure to keep any reader entertained.
My thanks to Penguin AU for my copy to read and review.
4 stars
February 28, 2023 by Bantam Australia
