Tartt leads us through the fictional town of Alexandra by following main character Harriet, who has just turned twelve and is a bit of an oddity: extremely grown-up (a mother who has a depression a father that lives in another town with another women even though nobody dares to say it out loud) and still such a little child (almost too many fantasies, playing all day long, not able to concentrate on anything mature).
It is more about the Cleve-family dealing with what happened, about the whole way of living in the sixties in a strong religious area, about life in Mississippi. And certainly not his baby sister from two months old.ĭespite her age on the day of grief, it is Robins youngest sister, Harriet, that starts a long, difficult search to the murderer.Įven though the first pages, the back and the title of the book may make you think of it, this second Tartt-novel (after The secret History this novel came out in 2003) is not about the murder on the little boy.
Not his mother, nor his aunts, great-aunts or neighbours. Robin Cleve, nine years old, is found hanging in a three, dead. A review of ‘The Little Friend’ by Donna Tartt.
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