The Make-Believe Man by Elizabeth Fenwick
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Fenwick's The Make-Believe Man is a fast read, and while it's not bad, it's not groundbreaking, either. There are definitely shades of Psycho present, and I can't help but think that the success of that novel must have had an influence here. The basic plot involves a young widow staying at her mother's house after one of her mother's former lodgers returns and wants to get his room back. The widow turns him away, he takes it very personally, and then the thrills start. Sort of. If there's a problem with the novel, it's that, for the most part, there aren't that many thrills. The book is probably about half "young widow realizing that her boss is kind of handsome and fun when he's not at work" a quarter "young widow being afraid of stalker/telling herself she's being silly" and a quarter "stalker being creepy."
Mostly interesting as a look back at a different time period to see how social conventions have changed.
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