During much of the climax of the book, Ruben is a prisoner, but "sees" the bloody carnage through big brother Cole's eyes. He shares some of Rachel's pain, and briefly inhabits the body of the murderer, now dead and rotting. Not so with Ruben, because he sometimes experiences things through other people. The usual constriction of writing in the first person is that the narrator can only recount first hand the events he's actually been involved in. It's narrated by her younger brother Ruben, and the manner in which he does this is one of the things that lifts this story out of the ordinary. The book gets its title from the Lychway - a path across the moors used to carry corpses to the church at Lydford before the 13th century - on which 19-year-old Rachel Ford from London is raped, battered and strangled.
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