Davis, Kathryn. The Walking Tour
The Walking Tour is a book that has the possibility of a great story but never really delivers. Two couples head to Wales for a walking tour that ends in a fatal accident. The story is told from the perspective of the daughter of one of the couples Susan and it is her attempts to piece the story together that form the book's narrative. Susan is a passive; irritating narrator who never seems fully involved with either story. She lives alone and is beleaguered by a local hippie type. She feels both threatened and removed from the town and seems as though she is trying to simply disappear. The story that she recounts about the trip to Wales is no better. None of the characters are appealing or even interesting and reading about it only makes the reader grateful that they weren't along on the trip.
Anne-Marie Mulligan, February 15, 2000
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library - This page last updated 2/15/00 - lme.