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After finishing A Room of One's Own, I listened to The Likeness by Tana French, the second in her Dublin murders series. The plot is absurd- a policewoman resembles a murder victim that no one knows died yet so exactly that she goes undercover as if the person had never died to live with her grad student best friends and roommates in a grand old house that one of them inherited. However, I liked it despite its preposterousness, mainly because I like uni novels, I like novels about odd cliquish groups and I like novels about big old houses, so it hit a sweet spot for me. It was quite different from the first in the series which was a more straightforward type of procedural whereas this one immersed the reader into the small secluded world of the victim and her friends. It reminded me a bit of The Secret History in feel. While I thought the mystery in the first in the series was too easy to solve, this one wasn't as clear cut but the mystery here also fell a bit by the wayside because the book was a lot about this group just living together.
Now I'm on Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame which I'm closing in on finishing soon. It's a mid-century New Zealand drama drawing on the author's own life about a group of siblings in childhood and as adults, one with mental problems causing her to be admitted to an institution. So far it's very good and the first book I've ever read from the country.
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