After reading her last novel (The Plot), I was fully expecting something with more... well, plot. The big pluses of this author is her incredible writing style. It is a joy to take in the craft because she is a master in her work. I truly, truly mean that-there are some beautiful sentences in this novel (and in every single of her other novels). I also went into this book knowing that it was more of a character study than perhaps the other novel had been. And! yet! I wanted more to happen. The book is a lot longer than her last one, and it felt like it.
It was a bit jarring to continually be displaced as each chapter focused on a different person...just as I was getting to know the one highlighted by the previous chapter. I'm also unsure I need another book from the perspective of a very rich family unit that is seemingly broken beyond repair (with an emphasis on the rich).
If you're someone who enjoys character study and who reads literary fiction because of its, well, literary nature, I think you should definitely give it a try. If you're looking for the author of The Plot to hook you into another psychological mystery, try picking up her other book - You Should Have Known.