Point of View

This novel is told from the first-person point of view of Jack. Consider the sentence: “It was nearly four a.m. before I got back home to Salisbury Lane, and I was half-drunk with exhaustion, my eyes scratching with tiredness as I wove mechanically through the near-deserted residential streets of South London” (33). Jack refers to herself with the pronouns “I” and “my” (33). She describes her own thoughts and emotions, but she is limited to what she knows or finds out from other characters.

The first-person point of view is ideal for this novel because it allows the reader to see Jack’s predicament from her point of view. The reader knows only what Jack knows and learns what she learns as she works her way through her investigation. It is ideal for the narration to follow Jack because she is the central character. There is...