# Someone please spoil "Life Mask" by Emma Donoghue for me

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**Created:** [December 4, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-spoil-life-mask-by-emma-donoghue-for-me/382873 "2006-12-04T22:28:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-spoil-life-mask-by-emma-donoghue-for-me/382873/1 "2006-12-04T22:28:39Z")

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I’m about 2/3 of the way through [Life Mask](http://www.amazon.com/Life-Mask-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0156032643/sr=8-1/qid=1165269585/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-9600971-5148663?ie=UTF8&s=books) and I don’t know if I can bear to continue on… I am finding most of it boring, and it is difficult to keep up with all the various characters (even more so since I am listening to it on CD. And I don’t care for the narrator much, either. It’s difficult to tell which character is supposed to be saying what line since they all sound alike).

So I think I am admitting defeat and throwing in the towel. Someone please tell me what happens in roughly the last half of the book?