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Can anyone ever go home again?

For Frieda Klein, therapist and woman managing in her solo existence in London, thoughts of the home she left behind in Braxton twenty-three years before have now intruded upon her, as she faces the young teenage girl, the daughter of an old school acquaintance from Braxton, who has confided a horrific secret. Something that arouses all of Frieda's worst memories.

Young Becky has told about her rape a few months before, and how her mother, Maddie, did not believe her. Now Maddie is aware that Frieda knows the secret, and this only enrages her. Her feelings of intense dislike and fear are brought to the fore. For Frieda, the long-buried rage aroused in her by the release of this secret is like a strong gravitational pull into the past. Something Becky said to Frieda reawakened that long ago moment when she herself had been raped at sixteen, and reminded her of her own mother's disbelief.

Can the past be repeating itself? Then, as if to ante up the stakes, Becky is found hanged in her room, presumably suicide. But the more Frieda learns, upon her return to Braxton, the more she is convinced that the man who raped her also raped Becky...and others in between. And that he has also killed.

Thursday's Children is the story of the past, the present, and how the secrets come back to haunt us. The title also symbolizes the name of a musical group playing in Braxton on the night of Frieda's rape. Can Frieda discover who has been raping and murdering young girls, and if she does, will the police even believe her? Her experiences with the police in this town have been less than satisfactory.

But she has her own occasional colleague, DCI Malcolm Karlsson...and seemingly the shadowy stalker presence of presumed dead Dean Reeve, that nobody believes is there--except, perhaps, Karlsson--and as time passes, her belief in his malevolent/protective presence is reinforced by events.

This fourth novel in the series is also populated by familiar faces from the previous novels, like Josef, the handyman and occasional cook; Reuben, a therapist colleague; and her niece Chloe. For the first time, we meet her mother, Dr. Juliet Klein, who is a hard, ironic, and cold presence in Frieda's past, and with whom she now must interact. Will the ghosts of the past finally be put to rest? Will the secrets be unleashed and the perpetrators punished? And, in the end, will Frieda find peace?


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Thursday Child A Frieda Klein Novel Frieda Klein Series eBook Nicci French Reviews

THURSDAY’S CHILDREN A FRIEDA KLEIN MYSTERY is the 4th installment in the series. The series is written by Nicci French, a pseudonym of the English husband and wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. This title (as, indeed, the entire series) is a very complex, fascinating, psychological suspense thriller. The stories revolve around Frieda Klein, a solitary, complex, kind, gifted psychotherapist living and working in London.
Frieda has a chilling memory from the past when an acquaintance from her home town of Braxton shows up on her doorstep asking Frieda to help her daughter, Becky. The story is very suspenseful and threads from other titles weave their way slowly into THURSDAY’S CHILDREN.
Some of the old ‘school friends’ blurred together a bit. I stopped reading frequently in order to get everyone’s personalities straightened out. Frieda’s return to her family home and home town took a lot of courage. Some of the bits were hard to read, especially of her mother’s character.
The plot points were also hard to read because of the subject matter. It is infuriating and frustrating to keep reading about the harassment and rape of young women and the coverups or non-investigations that follow.
I find myself checking out the map first thing, to see what ‘lost and buried’ river Frieda is following on her solitary, night time walks. The River Walbrook features in this title. This thread is fascinating to me and I look forward to learning about some of the ‘lost places’ of London.
DCI Karlsson, Josef, Sasha and Sandy have minor supporting roles in this title.
An interesting, mysterious, psychological, dramatic read in this brilliant series.
Warning- Do not read this review if you have not read the first four books of this series or are not willing to face up to the sheer effrontery of plot reveals. The purpose of this review is to explain why I will spend no more money on this series.
One of the strengths of any series should be world creation. By that I mean, the creation of a background, of an ethos, of a way of life of a group of characters who are believable and interesting in some way. The authors of the Freida Klein series have failed at this basic task.
There are simply too many parts of their plotting or characterizations that are not believable. The main character is a psychotherapist. An essential part of the training of any psychotherapist is to undergo therapy themselves. How can you guide someone through the process of healing or of coming to confront your issues if you haven't dealt with your own? Freida is a therapist who has spent her life denying her own issues and of failing to confront them in any way what so ever. We find out in the third and fourth books (I believe) that the therapists who worked with her had no idea that her father had committed suicide or that she was raped shortly thereafter. The plain truth of her story is that she has never undergone any real therapy. I guess we are supposed to believe that her solitary night time walks around London (the best parts of the books by the way) are supposed to be where she comes to self-knowledge. More frequently, the walks are her form of self-medication.
Then there is the whole ridiculous plot twist of the evil twin who looms large throughout the series as the main baddie. Dean Reeve is a twin of another character from the first book who escapes justice by killing his twin and then taking over the twin's life for a few days before disappearing into what seems like a parallel universe. In the following books, Deanie boy literally follows Freida around, never far from her side. She is attacked inside a house in the second book and Dean the Killing Machine is close enough to intervene and to kill her attacker before it is too late. Dean the Traveler thru Time and Space is able to follow her to her childhood village (where strangers would be obvious) and to steal something from her on the off chance he will need it later (duh-he does to let her know that he has once again avenged her). At the end of the Thursday book, Freida has discovered the identity of her childhood rapist but can do nothing about it because 1. he manages to rape and kill without leaving any evidence and 2. everyone who knows about him protects him. This situation allows Dean the Avenging Angel of Freida's Worser Nature to kill him for her.
Now think about her complicity in that death. By now, Freida has to know what Dean will do when she is confronted with a situation she can't solve. And from the writing it actually seems as if Dean's act along with the death of her mother frees her from the weight of her past.
To sum up, the series abounds in the absurd, indulges in various bouts of righteousness and is peopled by a main protagonist who would really be a annoying and irresponsible friend. Not to mention her love interest in the first four books is a jerk.
Simply put, Freida Klein is not worth the knowing.
Can anyone ever go home again?

For Frieda Klein, therapist and woman managing in her solo existence in London, thoughts of the home she left behind in Braxton twenty-three years before have now intruded upon her, as she faces the young teenage girl, the daughter of an old school acquaintance from Braxton, who has confided a horrific secret. Something that arouses all of Frieda's worst memories.

Young Becky has told about her rape a few months before, and how her mother, Maddie, did not believe her. Now Maddie is aware that Frieda knows the secret, and this only enrages her. Her feelings of intense dislike and fear are brought to the fore. For Frieda, the long-buried rage aroused in her by the release of this secret is like a strong gravitational pull into the past. Something Becky said to Frieda reawakened that long ago moment when she herself had been raped at sixteen, and reminded her of her own mother's disbelief.

Can the past be repeating itself? Then, as if to ante up the stakes, Becky is found hanged in her room, presumably suicide. But the more Frieda learns, upon her return to Braxton, the more she is convinced that the man who raped her also raped Becky...and others in between. And that he has also killed.

Thursday's Children is the story of the past, the present, and how the secrets come back to haunt us. The title also symbolizes the name of a musical group playing in Braxton on the night of Frieda's rape. Can Frieda discover who has been raping and murdering young girls, and if she does, will the police even believe her? Her experiences with the police in this town have been less than satisfactory.

But she has her own occasional colleague, DCI Malcolm Karlsson...and seemingly the shadowy stalker presence of presumed dead Dean Reeve, that nobody believes is there--except, perhaps, Karlsson--and as time passes, her belief in his malevolent/protective presence is reinforced by events.

This fourth novel in the series is also populated by familiar faces from the previous novels, like Josef, the handyman and occasional cook; Reuben, a therapist colleague; and her niece Chloe. For the first time, we meet her mother, Dr. Juliet Klein, who is a hard, ironic, and cold presence in Frieda's past, and with whom she now must interact. Will the ghosts of the past finally be put to rest? Will the secrets be unleashed and the perpetrators punished? And, in the end, will Frieda find peace?