See Jane Run

Description

364 pages
$26.95
ISBN 0-7737-2466-4
DDC C813'.54

Year

1991

Contributor

Reviewed by June M. Blurton

June M. Blurton is a retired speech/language pathologist.

Review

Jane Whittaker seems to have everything. Her husband is a respected
pediatric surgeon who loves her. She is the mother of a beautiful
daughter and lives in a charming suburb. There is just one snag. One
afternoon she finds herself on a street corner in Boston with no memory
of her own name, let alone the facts of her life. Her doctor tells her
that hysterical amnesia is a way of dealing with an intolerable
situation, but, on the face of it, her situation is far from
intolerable. As she struggles to regain her memory, she passes through
one crisis after another, each more chilling than the last, culminating
in the horror of remembering what really happened. This is Fielding’s
eighth novel. While she has a tendency to overexplain her characters’
thoughts, she does make these characters alive, and the incidents in
which they take part are gripping. This book would be a good choice for
reading in the peace of a summer afternoon.

Citation

Fielding, Joy., “See Jane Run,” Canadian Book Review Annual Online, accessed March 13, 2025, https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/12093.