The teenager bonding is so good! I loved the parts of the book where we were just hanging out with John and the kid and the kid's friend (Coconut?) watching them More Or Less Succeed in Kid-Oriented Survival Training Tasks the most.
Unnatural Death has a lot of 1930s problems to a modern eye but it is genuinely one of my favorites -- it really does grapple with some of the tensions in the best (by which I mean uneasiest) fashion, whereas when it comes up later, in the Peter/Harriet ones, the argument always shifts to 'well is it fair for HARRIET to be upset about it' which is in fact a different argument.
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Unnatural Death has a lot of 1930s problems to a modern eye but it is genuinely one of my favorites -- it really does grapple with some of the tensions in the best (by which I mean uneasiest) fashion, whereas when it comes up later, in the Peter/Harriet ones, the argument always shifts to 'well is it fair for HARRIET to be upset about it' which is in fact a different argument.