That being said, this book is nothing like an Alfred Hitchcock film. Review words that are thrown around to describe this book are: noirish, very funny, scintillating, and thought-provoking.
It is possible that I don't know the definition of them, but I did not find this story to be any of those words.
A young lady get hired to be the nanny. The mother who hired the nanny is a narcissist. However, the nanny has some artistic quirks of her own and by the end of the book, it all comes crashing down.
How far will you take art for the sake of artistic experience/experiment?
When you throw around a name like Hitchcock, you'd expect some fine twists and unexpected developments. In this book, everything follows a straight path. Once you are introduced to everyone in this book's cast, you know what's going to happen. You know the nanny is going to make a horrible decision regarding the mother's older son. You know that mother is going to make bad decision after bad decision.
Maybe this is reflective of how people truly behave. Maybe Edan Lepucki has that inside track to what's going on in the high life in California.
I did not enjoy this book. The copy I received came with a reader's guide. Perhaps this book was designed to be a book club read?
It wasn't for me.
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