7/5/2023 0 Comments Stone's Fall by Iain Pears![]() ![]() The narrative opens at a funeral in 1953 and is then divided into three sections, broadly moving backward in time from 1909 London, to Paris in 1890, to Venice in 1867, where the true account of Stone’s fall is finally revealed. “Stone’s Fall” is daunting only in its length though bogged down in parts, it is wonderfully accessible and entertaining. ![]() (It would be unreasonable to expect such a thing from Pears, anyway.) On its surface, that’s a fairly straightforward plot for a mystery, but at 600 pages, the novel is anything but simple. It’s left up to her to discover the identity of the child he never acknowledged, so that his final wishes can be carried out. The problem? He and his wife, Elizabeth, have no children. ![]()
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