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The Jump

von Doug Johnstone

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Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks down another suicidal teenager, Sam, and sees for herself a shot at redemption, the chance to atone for her son's death.But even with the best intentions, she can't foresee the situation she's falling headlong into - a troubled family, with some very dark secrets of their own.From number-one best-selling author of Gone Again, The Jump is a hugely moving contemporary thriller and a stunning portrait of an unlikely heroine.… (mehr)
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THE JUMP is not the kind of book you should start when you only have a few reading minutes at hand. Once begun you’ll need to finish it quickly.

It is the story of Ellie Napier and how she copes, or doesn’t, following the suicide of her teenage son Logan. The book is a portrait of a woman in grief, trying a seemingly random selection of behaviours to get from one day to the next. Or one moment to the next when a day seems too impossible a span of time to contemplate. She gets tattoos. She walks or swims to exhaustion. She compulsively checks her dead son’s Facebook page. She watches the grainy security camera footage of his final moments. She haunts the bridge from which he jumped. One day she sees another teenager preparing to jump from the same bridge. She intervenes. Having blamed herself for her son’s death Ellie feels like this is a second chance. At least that’s the only vaguely sensible explanation for the extraordinary things she subsequently does (though it would only be a heard-hearted reader who could blame her for any of it).

Vincent van Gogh’s At Eternity’s Gate has always been my favourite painting of grief (and please let’s not be sidetracked whether it is what the artist intended the subject to depict, it’s what I have always seen). THE JUMP has exactly the same sensibility for me; somehow feeling more like a painting than a book. Perhaps because it provides such evocative imagery, especially of the massive bridge that looms over the surrounding area, almost inviting people to leap from it. Also, like the painting, though it is unquestionably sad THE JUMP manages to avoid being miserable (there is such a gulf between sadness and misery yet so many writers seem to think the two are indistinguishable). And, before you worry, it’s not one of those frighteningly troublesome ‘let’s all find the joy in sadness together’ stories either. It’s just…honest.

I think I liked THE JUMP for what it isn’t almost as much as for what it is. It isn’t wordy. By today’s standards it’s positively and deliciously brief. It isn’t in your face either. In a way every one of its relatively few words is saying to readers how truly awful a thing suicide is but there’s no proselytising nor any demeaning of the dead and the choices they make. We are simply shown the havoc such an act wreaks on those left behind. Ellie’s husband Ben is equally as bereft as his wife, though his wretchedness is released differently. In any other context his his clinging to conspiracy theories about water quality and other environmental factors to explain suicides might be comical. Here it is just sad and, again, very realistic. I can’t be only reader who wanted to wrap them both in a great big hug.

If you’re wondering (given my usual reading fare), there are several crimes in this book. And in their way they are pivotal. But in another sense they don’t matter at all. And either way I’m saying nothing more about them because I want you to discover all the surprises this book has to offer just as I did. As if unforgettable characters and a haunting setting weren’t enough THE JUMP offers a truly unexpected storyline. I wonder if I’ve already read my favourite book of the year?
  bsquaredinoz | Jan 28, 2016 |
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Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks down another suicidal teenager, Sam, and sees for herself a shot at redemption, the chance to atone for her son's death.But even with the best intentions, she can't foresee the situation she's falling headlong into - a troubled family, with some very dark secrets of their own.From number-one best-selling author of Gone Again, The Jump is a hugely moving contemporary thriller and a stunning portrait of an unlikely heroine.

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