The Idea of You by Amanda Prowse
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lucy and Jonah meet at a christening, fall in love, marry, and are over the moon when Lucy discovers she is pregnant, until at 11 weeks she starts to bleed and their hopes and dreams for the new addition to their family fade.
I always find with Amanda Prowse's books that I can relate to the story in one way or another, and yet again I can because I sadly suffered a miscarriage, like Lucy at 11 weeks into my pregnancy and so I felt every emotion that was written. Every tear she shed, I did, when she got angry with life, I did and when she was thinking "why me?" I did too.
This isn't a twee attempt at a subject that women still don't talk about, this was written from the heart and the characters were very true to life. I loved Lucy, and wanted to sit on the sofa with her, hold her hand and tell her that the pain of a lost child doesn't go away, you just learn to live with it. Jonah, well I wasn't sure if I liked him or loathed him...I wanted to like him, but sometimes he got under my skin and I wanted to slap him!!!
Amanda Prowse has a God given talent to take subjects that we might not want to talk about, and weave magical threads around them so that we do end up having those conversations...she is the Rumplestiltskin of the written word.
I can't wait until the next book!!
Thank you to Netgalley and Amanda Prowse for the advance copy in return for an honest review.
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lucy and Jonah meet at a christening, fall in love, marry, and are over the moon when Lucy discovers she is pregnant, until at 11 weeks she starts to bleed and their hopes and dreams for the new addition to their family fade.
I always find with Amanda Prowse's books that I can relate to the story in one way or another, and yet again I can because I sadly suffered a miscarriage, like Lucy at 11 weeks into my pregnancy and so I felt every emotion that was written. Every tear she shed, I did, when she got angry with life, I did and when she was thinking "why me?" I did too.
This isn't a twee attempt at a subject that women still don't talk about, this was written from the heart and the characters were very true to life. I loved Lucy, and wanted to sit on the sofa with her, hold her hand and tell her that the pain of a lost child doesn't go away, you just learn to live with it. Jonah, well I wasn't sure if I liked him or loathed him...I wanted to like him, but sometimes he got under my skin and I wanted to slap him!!!
Amanda Prowse has a God given talent to take subjects that we might not want to talk about, and weave magical threads around them so that we do end up having those conversations...she is the Rumplestiltskin of the written word.
I can't wait until the next book!!
Thank you to Netgalley and Amanda Prowse for the advance copy in return for an honest review.
View all my reviews
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