I have enjoyed Rebecca Makkai's previous novels so I was very pleased to be given the opportunity to read I Have Some Questions For You. A strong narrative voice draws you into both the adult protagonist's take on things looking back with experience and her more naïve teenage perspective.

A really interesting and thought provoking read that I couldn't put down. It was engaging and i found myself completely overtaken by it I read it in just over a day. I enjoyed it.

I Have Some Questions for You follows Bodie, who never felt she fit in at the boarding school where she spent four years of her life and where Thalia, briefly her roommate, was murdered, aged seventeen.
Now a successful true crime podcaster, Bodie is giving a two-week class at Granby to a handful of students keen to sign up for her expert advice. She’s become obsessed with Thalia’s death, convinced of a miscarriage of justice, scanning her memory and finally coming up with a piece of information which eventually leads to a hearing calling for a retrial for which she returns two years later. Bodie aims her account of her investigations at the music teacher who seemed a little too close to Thalia and who has left little or no trace of himself, wanting to ask him questions that will likely never be answered. Meanwhile, every day, women are suffering violence and coercion and men are getting away with it.
There’s a great deal of sleuthing, presentation of evidence and discussion of court proceedings plus characters’ backstories and details of boarding school life to enjoy in Makkai’s novel which opens in 2018 when #MeToo grabbed the western world’s attention only to lose it again. She punctuates her narrative with a litany of violence, sexual harassment and coercion suffered by women, given little credence by the legal system, balancing it neatly with her estranged husband’s brush with social media fury for dating a twenty-one-year-old when he was thirty-six. It’s an absorbing, suspenseful and thought-provoking novel, a great piece of storytelling underpinned with a sober theme, if a little too long for me.