In my opinion... Yet another great story from Lisa Hall Lisa, please stop writing books that prevent me getting on with the rest of my life?! I just saw a tweet that said you'd handed another book in. Sigh. Life on hold again... This psychological thriller starts with every parents’ nightmare- when their child goes missing, except the person who actually seems most concerned is Laurel’s nanny, Anna. From its dramatic and uncomfortable start on a dark bonfire night, the story races along.It is filled with unsympathetic but credible characters, all of whom I suspected during the course of the story as I was thrown lots of red herrings and was led down dead ends. The pace is relentless, and I f
In my opinion... I was excited to receive this book through the post- its bright, sunny cover invited me to dive in, but once I got inside, I found a dark gripping story waiting. The story immediately presents us with a confessed unreliable narrator, Aimee Sinclair, an actress, which sounded a warning bell as I determinedly tried to work out who had done what during the course of the novel. Aimee’s husband has disappeared, and she seems surprisingly disinterested, which is also a concern for the police. What secrets is she hiding? We then have a separate timeline going back to 1987, when a young girl, Ciara, tells her story. I am usually reluctant to read novels which are told from a child’s
Looking forward to this one...and what a great colour, it just shouts, read me in the sunshine!
