Nutshell

To be or not to be? That is the question

Particularly if your life has yet to really begin.

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan and that plan involves murder.

But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-monthold resident of Trudy's womb a Hamlet in miniature who hears and plays a very unusual kind of detective.

Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers.