Cooee's acerbic narrator, Isabel Weaving, is not quite what she seems. True, she's a daughter, a sister, a mother and an ex-wife, having escaped one unsatisfactory marriage, although not with her relationships with her children intact. Her second husband, Max, is the love of her life but is no longer on the scene, the grief caused by his absence only tempered by the visits of her beloved granddaughter. Gradually and unwittingly, Isabel reveals more and more about herself, her relationships and Max's disappearance. This literary suspense novel, brimful of twists and turns, will have you gasping at its unexpected revelations, but also doubled over at Isabel's blackly comic wit. She's one highly entertaining yet unreliable narrator.