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Finished reading and want to talk about the book? Leave a comment below with your first impressions, observations. What did you like about the book? Any part of the book you didn't like?

Here are some questions to answer to get your comments going.

1. The Long Call opens with a scene of Matthew Venn standing outside his father’s funeral service, mulling over why he is watching from the outside rather than mourning with family and friends inside. How do the relationships between parents and children—Matthew and his mother, Lucy and Maurice, Caroline and Christopher—affect the events of the novel?

2. Birds come into play more than once in The Long Call, for example the titular “long call� that refers to herring gulls, and the albatross tattoo on Simon’s neck. What might these references symbolize? Are they connected?

3. Who did you feel is ultimately responsible for Simon's death? How did the culture of the surrounding area enable the murder to happen and the murderer to (initially) stay hidden?