![]() Come morning, Cynthia - full of remorse, and with her head throbbing from the drink - struggles downstairs, only to find that her mother, Patricia, her father and her elder brother, Todd, have all vanished. Following a huge family row, fueled by the booze she had shared with Fleming, the girl storms off to her bedroom, locks the door, and falls into an all-consuming slumber. While fooling around in the back end of a car with a case of booze, this pair are spotted by her father, Clayton, who immediately hauls Cynthia back home. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge is a troublesome young girl, caught out late one night with her boyfriend Vince Fleming - a bad boy from a family of criminals, whom Cynthia’s parents dislike. ![]() No Time for Goodbye has a great premise, and a cast of real people trapped in a terrifying and totally extraordinary situation. This meant brewing a mug of very strong coffee past midnight, just so I could finish Barclay’s haunting tale. I started reading No Time late one evening - a mistake - and I was damned if I was going to let my fatigue stop me from finishing. ![]() ![]() ![]() It may be a cliché to say that this novel is impossible to put down, but for me that was true. The biggest surprise for this reviewer is that I’d never read any previous works by Canadian author Linwood Barclay, which made finding No Time just that much sweeter. One of the principal delights in book reviewing is discovering a gem, a work that pushes the bar just a little higher - and that is exactly what No Time for Goodbye does. ![]()
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