Nutshell by Ian McEwan

 
From Goodreads

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.

Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.

My thoughts

I recently read this as one of my local Library reading group reads.

I have read quite a few books by Ian McEwan over the years, but this was unusual in the way that it was told to us.  The narrator of the story is an unborn child, who narrates from inside the womb. 

This is a modern contemporary retelling of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, so if you know the outcome of that play then you will have a fair good idea of what happens in this one.

I quite enjoyed the way the story was related to the reader and if you ever come across it, then it's worth a gander at.