‘Welcome to wherever you are‘, is by John Marrs and tells the tale of 8 strangers, all of whom are staying in the same back packing hostel in L.A. Everyone here has there own story and their own reason for being there, whether it’s something they’ve been running from or their trying to find themselves.
The story is quite hard to follow at first although, I may have thought this having read it quite sporadically to start with, meaning that I tended to forget who was who and what their back story was. Once I got into the book though, I found it hard to put down. The second part of the book was definitely more interesting, as by then we know why everyone is where they are, or at least we know part of the story. From then on you’ll want to keep reading to find out what happens to this bunch of people. Will they find what they need or will the past catch up with them?
You’ll come to love the characters too, for most of them, my opinions changed. You’ll come to love them all, hoping that they end up being ok. Throughout the story, John Marrs brings the characters together, making friendships and enemies with each other and all these help to create what the final ending will be for each of them.
This book is a great read, once you get into it, as I said it’s confusing at first. There’s a lot of different plot lines going on at the same time, but once they all start coming together, you’ll want to keep on reading, right to the very last line.
The story begins Michael telling his wife, Louise that he’s been having an affair with her younger sister. Feeling betrayed, Louise leaves and heads for their other home in the Cotswolds. At the same time as this, Michael is facing arrest, time in prison and being charged for inside trading, tax evasion and theft from his employees’ funds. Michael and Louise have two children, Brooke and Dominic.
The book mainly focuses on Daisy’s relationships with the team’s two drivers, Will and Luis. She’s determined that she hates Luis, after arguing with him after a near collision, with her on a moped. Will however is lovely, although he likes to keep himself to himself, Daisy and Will get close and Daisy starts to develop feelings for him.
Jean runs a bookshop, but not any old bookshop, it’s one he calls a ‘literary apothecary’, he prescribes books for his customers to sooth their troubled souls. People come to visit him at his floating shop, a boat on the river Seine. Jean converted the boat himself and reflects one day that it is ‘a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people.’
Catherine at first thinks that Simon has gone for his morning run before work as per usual and thinks nothing of it when he’s not there, when she wakes up. However when she realises that he never made it into work that day, she knows that something is not right. Thoughts run around her head, was it something she did? Is Simon in trouble? How could he just up and leave her and their children?
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