Emily Critchley is the author of One Puzzling Afternoon, a mystery historical fiction novel set in a small town in the British Isles. Edie is 84 now but in the book she is a schoolgirl living with her mother and father in the same house she lives in when she was 84. Her mother tells fortunes which both embarrasses and scares Edie. Sometimes her mother really is able to tell a fortune. Edie becomes friends with one of the wealthy, popular girls at her school. Her friend disappears at age 15. At age 84, Edie is determined to find out what happened to her friend all those years ago. This book was interesting because the narrator, Edie, has dementia. Sometimes she knows she has dementia. Other times she is highly offended when people treat her as forgetful. I thought the book was beautifully written.
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