
First, I apologise for starting a review with a longish quote from the book I am reviewing. I’m going to start with two apologies – or one apology and one partial apology.

Those who weren’t well off tended to back the store on the basis of economic survival.Īs Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. There was something of a class divide there. They talked about how hard things were, how they needed to shop more cheaply without spending a lot of money on petrol, how they and their relatives needed the jobs Sovo would provide.


Those she talked to who wanted the store to come here had hardly embraced evil.
