The story delves into its history and the enigma of the dead man, peeling back the lives of everybody involved.

The only issue is that the book seems to lose focus from this and concentrate on the lives of these other characters, which I enjoyed aspects of, but ultimately found myself constantly thinking 'yes, but what about the man? Het scheepswrak, dat dertig jaar geleden op de zandbank strandde, staat centraal in Er schuilt een vreemde in ons.

Some of us leapt overboard, iron shackles around our ankles, rather than become slaves to heartless men. Armstrong doesn't just weave a story well; she gets right under the skin of our characters, drawing out their personality traits with such vitality that they feel known to us almost personally.

Told through a chorus of voices, Falling Animals follows the crosshatching threads of lives both true and imagined, real and surreal, past and present. Many thanks to the publisher for an advance copy via NetGalley; as always, this is an honest review. But the mystery of his life and death lingers long after he’s buried in an unmarked grave, drawing the nearby villagers into its wake. The stunning cover on Falling Animals will surely have readers picking this up off the shelves, but dive into this story, and you'll not be disappointed.Falling Animals is staggeringly beautiful, both inside and out, with a most striking cover, a work of art in its own right. Months later, after a fruitless investigation, the nameless stranger is buried in an unmarked grave. It's people are inextricably linked to the sea, which in turn links them to everyone and everything that is touched by the sea. Each chapter is from a different character's viewpoint, and just as their lives intersect, crossing back and forth with a staggering attention to detail, we learn more of our mystery man. This is a book that is very different to what I was expecting, and wildly different to anything I have read before.