![]() ![]() However, he constantly wants to know where she is, secretly checks her phone, is suspicious of her other friendships, undermines her and blames her for everything that goes wrong. On the surface, Matty appears to be a charming doctor who cares deeply for Lisa who works as an English teacher at a secondary school. The narrator is the ghost of a woman in her thirties, Lisa Evans, who was also hit by a train at the station a year and a half earlier and the majority of the story looks at what happened in her life which led to that event, specifically the coercive, controlling behaviour exhibited by her boyfriend, Dr Matthew Goodison. ![]() ‘Platform Seven’ opens with the suicide of a man at Peterborough station in the early hours of the morning. I suspect she will remain best known for Apple Tree Yard but her latest novel ‘Platform Seven’ is a very effective domestic psychological thriller and likely to be another commercially successful one too. Louise Doughty is brilliant at writing about underlying resentment and the things we secretly notice about people but rarely articulate. ![]()
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