My Review
This is not my usual kind of read, but as it was a novella, it ticked my box and gave me the chance to try something new.
I’ve read political novels in the distant past and, although they often had good stories, I usually came away not fully understanding everything because the plots were so complex.
I hadn’t expected Room 4 to be as compelling as it was. It turned out to be a truly great story, simply told through the eyes of Mike. I also found it fascinating reading about events from the mid-seventies, especially as I remembered some of them myself.
Because the story is told in the first-person point of view, I felt completely drawn in. So much so that I began to wonder whether it was based on true events. Was Mike a real person? It certainly felt that way.
However, a note from the author at the end confirmed it was definitely a work of fiction. Oh, that’s clever — Suzanne Stephenson is a super writer; she really had me there!
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Book Blurb and Link
Forty years ago, Mike Johnson was a law student but was also recruited by the security services to report on people where he lodged in a house in North London.
There he met the seductive Katalin and the mysterious grey fellow.
Now on the approach to the anniversary of PM Harold Wilson’s resignation, will the past come back to haunt him?
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