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I’m not sure what I expected from this book having read and
loved Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo a few years ago. What I got
with The Confabulist is a haunting tale of memory and loss, of the impossibility of living outside of the past we tell ourselves and the future we try but fail to mould. The
Confabulist is a re-telling of Houdini and the man who killed him, Martin
Strauss, but it's much more than that: the tale entraps you, weaving its bonds, and even if you can see it coming this compelling novel is particularly haunting because, in the
end, in the gut-punch end, you know it’s your story that Martin Strauss is telling, and your time is up.