King of the Badgers

King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher

My rating (out of 5 stars):

2 stars—It was okay.

My Thoughts:

I wanted to like this one. I was very engrossed from the first page and in the missing child plot but then Hensher lost me in the mass shuffle of people. The plot kept shifting, there were so many people that was confused about what was happening.

With more focus on the central plot and less sidetracks I would have really enjoyed this one.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“Here, Philip Hensher brings us the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of the small English town of Hanmouth. Usually a quiet and undisturbed place situated on an estuary, Hanmouth becomes the centre of national attention when an eight-year-old girl vanishes.”