This is the first book by Mantel that I’ve read and I really enjoyed it! The characters are unlikeable, the plot very slow, and yet it worked for me. There’s a sense of foreboding and claustrophobia throughout the book that makes you think something BIG is going to happen at any moment. It’s not until the very end that you get a glimpse of what’s going on in the empty flat. It’s a little anticlimactic. But again, it somehow worked. It feels like a person going through their day to day life then BAM, big event happens to someone you know and you want to know everything about but it’s clear you’ll never have an answer, certainly not a satisfactory one. It feels like the big events I’ve witnessed, they dangle and there’s no resolution, just contemplation about what could’ve happened and where they are now.