Just outside the city – any city, every city – is a grand, spacious but affordable apartment building called The Beresford.

There’s a routine at The Beresford.

For Mrs May, every day’s the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building. Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate Smythe no longer does. Because Abe just killed him. In exactly sixty seconds, Blair Conroy will ring the doorbell to her new home and Abe will answer the door. They will become friends. Perhaps lovers.

And, when the time comes for one of them to die, as is always the case at The Beresford, there will be sixty seconds to move the body before the next unknowing soul arrives at the door. Because nothing changes at The Beresford, until the doorbell rings…

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Review: This is a very weird book, unlike anything I have read before. It completely subverts expectations and looks at human nature in a really twisted way.

I did at times find it confusing. A lot happens in a short space of time and things at The Beresford change so quickly that you don’t really get the chance to know the different characters. But this allows them instead to become symbolic.  The short chapters help maintain a fast pace which, along with the continuous changes, makes this an exciting read.

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