Point of View

The novel is written from the third-person point of view. This third-person narrator is limited to the main character Lauren’s perspective. This means that the narrator inhabits Lauren’s consciousness throughout the novel and depicts the narrative world according to how Lauren sees and experiences it. For this reason, the entirety of the narrative action, conflict, and tension arises from Lauren’s mental and emotional spheres. Lauren’s internal conflicts with her external experiences dictate the narrative atmosphere and drive the narrative trajectory.

At the same time, because Lauren is unfamiliar with the uncanny parameters of her world, the reader is compelled to explore and orient to Lauren’s narrative sphere along with her. For example, when Lauren “gets back [home] quite late from Elena’s hen do” at the start of the novel and finds a strange man “waiting on the landing at...