"The Book of Guilt" flew too close to Ishiguro's plots, and its wings were not strong enough I really enjoy Catherine Chidgey's writing style: it manages to be propulsive and poetic at the same time and her prose is atmospheric, often making you a bit angry at the people in her books. At one point however the anger part started to feel. . . manipulative? I had a hard time putting my finger on what bothered me until I read this novel. "The Book of Guilt" is a dystopian novel taking place in an alternative past where World War 2 ended early. Germany was able to sign a lenient treaty and the horrors of Dr. Mengele and other human experiments are of big interest to the rest of Europe. The novel starts in this alternative past in 1979, at a home for children where three triplets are the last boys left.…