![]() Despite being written by a male author, with a narrative centred around a male protagonist, Trust is a decidely feminist–it is the women around Andrew Bevel that give us the total picture of who he truly is, rather than the person he wants people to see. ![]() Whilst Rask’s business is thriving we see the slow descent into madness that threatens the life of his wife, Helen.Īs Bonds reaches its climax, the reader is thrust into the mid-1930s and introduced to Andrew Bevel, a wildly successful Wall Street mogul and businessman, as he hires a secretary to assist him in ensuring not a single person is ever able to read Bonds again and to tell his version of the very same story.Ī tricky novel to write about without giving too much away, Trust explores the truths behind the lives of public figures and the lengths they will go to perpetuate a preferred image. Set in New York in the 1920s, in the opening section, we are introduced to a wildly popular fictional novel, Bonds, that tells the story of a famous Wall Street trader and his wife.īonds tells the story of Benjamin Rask, a successful businessman to whom trading comes naturally, who accumulates vast amounts of wealth, defying all the odds and prospering during the stock market crash of 1929. ![]() Trust is the most labyrinthine book I’ve read in a long time–gripping, mysterious, and compelling. ![]()
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