The novel consists of three loosely linked narratives.
In loosely linked narratives, three women from Senegal struggle with fathers and husbands in France.
Thompson's saga is a trilogy, originally published as three separate, but linked, narratives.
Again the novel is told through the interweaving of linked narratives.
It includes two sets of linked narratives, each consisting of four stories, as well as several free-standing stories.
Like its predecessor, "The Buddha in the Attic" unfurls as a sequence of linked narratives, some no longer than a paragraph.
Growing increasingly ill, he worked for five years on his final, hugely ambitious project: "2666," conceived as five discrete but linked narratives.
The book's last two sections, in which Dara and Abigail get their turns, coordinate and cohere better as linked narratives, for obvious reasons.
These linked narratives may seem at first to be simply a reductive gimmick based on the fact that both women were born as Muslims and educated in the West.
As the source notes indicate, it is largely based on what has already been written in the national press about the BHS and Arcadia boss, but it is thorough and well written, with a linking narrative that makes a rattling good story, and a 'would you believe it' leitmotif throughout.
