Friend Request
At the time of writing, this is not yet realeased in the US
My review -
Louise
receives a Facebook Friend request. It’s from Maria, a girl she was at school
with. The surprise, though, the thing that makes her shrink back in horror, is
that Maria died twenty–five years ago at their leavers’ party. Louise is horrified
because she believes her and her friends’ bullying cause the death. Only her
husband knows her part in it as he was at the same school. The plot becomes
more entangled when there is a school reunion for their class.
This
is an interesting study in what young people are prepared to do to fit in with
their peers. When your contemporaries’ opinions define you, you can persuade
yourself to go against your own better nature and good sense. Louise is still,
in adult life, bending her own nature and desires in order to fit in with those
of others. If Maria is dead, someone else sent that friend request. Someone who
blames Louise. Right at the very end, the story went a little out of my
credibility zone but nonetheless, I enjoyed it a great deal.
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